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2022 CCCR International Conference Recap
Session Recordings
Conference Report
Speakers
Keynote Title: Environmental Employment in the Decade Ahead
President & CEO of ECO Canada
Keynote Title: Feed 10 Billion Sustainably in an Era of Climate Change
Group Leader & Director of the John Innes Centre and Fellow of the Royal Society, UK
Keynote Title: Marine Sponges and their response to global climate change
Technical University Bergakademie in Freiberg, Germany
Keynote Title: Fighting against Climate Change and Changing the World
Conference Chair
President & CEO of Centre for Climate Change Research, Toronto, Canada
Title of Talk: Climate Change, Plant Biology and Public Health; a brief overview
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Title of Talk: Building green and climate-resilient agriculture: case studies in China
Professor and Research Team Head
Awards
Junior Best Poster Communication Award
Junior Best Oral Communication Award
- Young communication awards (Cash prizes) for both poster and oral presentation
- Young presenter’s eligibilities: M.S., Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows.
Award Winners
Dafydd Phillips (1st Place Winner)
Ambient Air Quality Synergies with a 2050 Carbon Neutrality Pathway in South Korea
Dafydd Phillips is a PhD candidate, Teaching Assistant, and Research Associate of the Research Center for Global Sustainability, at Yonsei University in South Korea. Originally from Ireland, he has resided and worked in South Korea for over ten years. He has worked on sustainable development projects for organizations such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Ban Ki-moon Foundation for a Better Future, and the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Environment. His primary expertise area is climate change mitigation and green transition, focusing on co-benefits, such as air pollution reduction, as well as on methods of incorporating climate risk into financial stability supervision and macroeconomic frameworks.
Dr. Muhammad Tahir Khan (2nd Place Winner)
Marine natural compounds as potents inhibitors against the main protease of SARS-CoV-2- a molecular dynamic study
Dr Khan did his PhD in Bioinformatics at the Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad. He is working as Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Bioinformatics at the University of Lahore. He also visited Shanghai Jiao Tong University of China for advance studies in Microbial Bioinformatics. Dr Khan is also a member of young editorial board of (SPRINGER NATURE). He is also a member of the research committee of the one belt one road international project (Shanghai-Belgrade-Islamabad) joint innovation center for microbial drug resistance.
Panel Judges
Dr. Azizur Rahman
President & CEO, Centre for Climage Change ResearchEsther Somanader
Program Relationship Manager, Centre for Climage Change ResearchElia Molinari
Representative of ECO CanadaConference special issue https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agriculture/special_issues/farm_climate_food,
called the "Climate change and food security: tackling the challenges from farm to fork"
Conference special issue https://www.mdpi.com/journal/covid/special_issues/COVID_Marine_Resources,
called the "COVID-19 and Marine Resources"
