The College of Education for Human Sciences at the University of Basra organized the first annual Environment Festival to increase environmental awareness and sustainable development, in the presence of the Dean of the College, Professor Dr. Nidaa Muhammad Baqir, the College Council, professors, and college students.
The festival aims to present ideas about the sustainable environment, rationalize human behavior, and increase environmental awareness to solve environmental problems as one of the strategies to achieve sustainable development.
The Dean of the College emphasized that February 21 would be the start of the university to begin changing many of our behaviors to create an attractive and clean environment. She explained that many habits are related to a sustainable environment, such as smoking, cleanliness, using cars even over short distances, water and its proper use, and electronic devices and their misuse. The need to replace plastic bags with paper bags.
She explained that the purple economy is linked to the green economy, and the necessity of preserving natural resources and leaving the slogan “Earth is an inexhaustible resource,” as climate conditions and global warming have begun to show their impact on natural life, and that everyone must bear each according to his responsibility.
For his part, the Chairman of the Environmental Committee, Professor Dr. Safaa Abdul Amir Rashm, stated through a research presented on the sidelines of the conference that there is no escape from changing behavior in dealing with the environment for the sake of sustainable development and taking into account the specificity of Basra Governorate.
The festival included the presentation of photographic research on the effects of pollution in Basra Governorate and ways to treat it, with a folkloric display on the remnants of war and their impact on the environment, the opening of an exhibition of free drawing as well as ready-made paintings on the environment, and a afforestation campaign, and a scientific symposium was held on the sidelines of the festival during which many studies were presented. And scientific research.
The symposium recommended submitting recommendations to the Council of Ministers and forming a committee to visit the governor of Basra and present the recommendations of the special research related to the governorate to reduce the effects.
The festival was attended by a member of the Provincial Council, Mr. Ali Adnan Al-Abadi, a representative of the Minister of Transport and Social Affairs, and the director of the Sumerian Movement office.
