The World Sustainability Conference, WSC, is an annual gathering of renowned sustainability experts and academia to proffer actionable solutions to sustainability challenges. It is a confluence of prominent sustainability speakers and presenters, who in pursuit of academic excellence are granted the opportunity to present their original research findings before a distinguished audience.

This year’s forum will focus on the theme: Repositioning and Transitioning Global Sustainability Beyond COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has not spared the nobility of the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations.  As policymakers enact recovery strategies, sustainability must be repositioned and transitioned if those strategies are to be consolidated. Based on this backdrop, we are convening global leaders and stakeholders to heed the clarion call to tackle the underlying challenges of sustainable development: To leave no one behind. To eradicate extreme poverty. To ensure the sustainability of the planet. To foster cooperation and prosperity for everyone.

Poster sessions, policy panel discussions, and academic presentations will demonstrate the broad scope of research activities being conducted at various universities, colleges and other tertiary institutions around the world, while keynote talks from industry experts will provide opportunities for discussion and networking amongst students and professionals around the world.

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Participants are encouraged to submit and present original research articles and reviews under the following sub themes:

education

• Leadership: Town and gown symbiotic relationship for promoting sustainable leadership

• Entrepreneurship: SDG 4 as a forerunner towards achieving sustainable development.

• Finance: National policy on budgetary provisions for sustainable educational development

• Politics: Build resilient global educational infrastructure against political onslaught

• Governance: Integrate scholars and educational policy makers in governance for sustainable educational development

• Future Preparation and Adaptation: Equip students in navigating a changing environment with the requisite knowledge of self-sufficiency, science and conservation.

energy

• Access: Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services.

• Efficiency: Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency and increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.

• Investment: Promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology.

• Research: Facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology.

environment

• Ecosystem Services: Protect, sustain, and restore the health of critical natural habitats and ecosystems.

• Green Engineering & Chemistry: Develop chemical products and processes to: reduce/prevent chemical hazards, reuse or recycle chemicals, treat chemicals to render them less hazardous, dispose of chemicals properly.

• Air & Water Quality: Attain and maintain air-quality standards and reduce the risk from toxic air pollutants. Reduce exposure to contaminants in drinking water (including protecting source waters), in fish and shellfish, and in recreational waters.

• Stressors: Reduce effects by stressors (such as pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions, genetically modified organisms) to the ecosystem.

• Resource Integrity: Reduce adverse effects by reducing waste generation, increased recycling, and ensuring proper waste management; restore resources by mitigating and cleaning up accidental or intentional releases.

• Resource Security: Protect, maintain, and restore access to basic resources (such as food, land, and energy).

• Sustainable Communities: Promote the development, planning, building, or modification of communities to promote sustainable living.

economics

• Incentives: Generate incentives that work with human nature to encourage sustainable practices.

• Supply and Demand: Promote price or quantity changes that alter economic growth, environmental health and social prosperity.

• Natural Resource Accounting: Incorporate natural capital depreciation in accounting indices and ecosystem services in cost benefit analysis.

• Costs: Positively impact costs of processes, services, and products.

• Prices: Promote a cost structure that accounts for externalities to production. 

equality

• Inclusivity: Ensure everyone everywhere has a chance to live a healthy and happy life regardless of gender, disability, ethnic or racial group, and socio-economic background. 

• Policy-Making: Political, economic and social policies need to be universal and pay particular attention to the needs of disadvantaged and marginalized communities. 

• Health: Improves health care system, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment.

The virtual conference is partitioned into minimum of five (5) distinct sessions with three keynote speakers at the joint opening conference and minimum of ten presenters for each parallel session. Each session is scheduled to last for a duration of 2 hours. A moderator would be assigned for each session.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

The keynote speakers are allotted a time frame of 30 minutes. The keynote speakers are expected to speak for 20 minutes, the remaining time space of 10 minutes will be reserved for questions and answers from the participants.

PRESENTERS

Each presenter would give their presentation for 12 minutes. Embedded within those time limits are opportunities for questions and answers.
The presenters would present for 10 minutes. Therefore, the remaining time space of 2 minutes will be reserved for questions and answers.  

MEDIUM

Presenters would be given a link to join their designated virtual sessions through zoom. Every participant would be given access to watch the Keynote speakers live while the general sessions will be live streamed for non-participants to watch the live event. Please ensure that you have a working mic and webcam on your computer or mobile device. Other details about presentation will be sent to registered participants in due course. For technical assistance, click here.

Important Deadlines

DEADLINE FOR Abstract Submission

October 20, 2021

Acceptance Notification

October 23, 2021

DEADLINE FOR EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION

October 30, 2021

DEADLINE FOR Full Paper Submission

November 5, 2021

DEADLINE FOR LATE REGISTRATION

November 8, 2021

Abstract Submission

Submit a 250-word abstract in English that includes the title, focus, and main contributions of your paper or poster. Kindly include your name, institutional affiliation, and email address.

Paper Format

All panel abstracts, paper abstracts, posters, and presentations will be available online as open access on our website.

Three types of manuscripts may be submitted:

Full–length articles: These should describe new and carefully confirmed findings, and experimental procedures should be given in sufficient detail for others to verify the work. The length of a full paper should be the minimum required to describe and interpret the work clearly.

Short Communications: A Short Communication is suitable for recording the results of complete small investigations or giving details of new models or hypotheses, innovative methods, techniques or apparatus. The style of main sections need not conform to that of full-length papers. Short communications are of 2 to 4 printed pages (about 6 to 12 manuscript pages) in length.

Reviews: Submissions of reviews and perspectives covering topics of current interest are welcome and encouraged. Reviews should be concise and no longer than 4-6 printed pages (about 12 to 18 manuscript pages). Reviews are also peer-reviewed.

Posters:  Submission of posters must include data and methodology. Posters are also subject to peer-review and would made available on all our platforms before the day of the event.

Anybody willing to present or publish presented paper must register for the conference and submit abstract(s). Abstracts and full length paper (in case of peer-reviewed publication) should be emailed to wsc@greeninstitute.ng with this ms-word file name format WSC1 Peterson Abstract or WSC1 Peterson Fullpaper where Peterson represents corresponding author's surname and WSC1 stands for the conference code.

Fees

The conference is free to attend. However, authors are required to pay a registration fee per participant to present their papers.

Undergraduate Participants: Free (No presentation)

Authors: $25

Certification

A verifiable ‘Certificate of Participation’ would be issued to participants who have successfully presented their papers.

Publication Option

Accepted papers will be published in the Green Journal, a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal focusing on various aspects of the sustainable development goals, environment, education, green economy, and management. Decisions are fast and efficient; revision requests are well-organized and concise. Note that the submitting paper for the conference does not guarantee that the paper will be accepted for publication.

Payment Details

You can pay securely online using your debit or credit cards, USSD or Bank Transfers. Click on the registration link and proceed with payments having received confirmation of your abstract acceptance.

Disclaimer

Plagiarism
Authors will submit only entirely original works, and will appropriately cite or quote the work and/or words of others. Publication that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work should also be cited. 

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