The Fourth International Scientific Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development was organized by the Center for Environmental Research at the University of Technology and the Arab Union for Sustainable Development and the Environment. The conference was attended by more than 120 researchers and researchers from various Iraqi governmental and private universities, in addition to the participation of many scientific and academic figures from the Arab Union and the Egyptian universities. At the Intercontinental Hotel City Star Cairo and in the presence of the Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq in the Arab Republic of Egypt Mr. Habib Al-Sadr and Professor Dr. Amin Dway Thamer, President of the University of Technology.

The opening session included a lecture by Dr. Bahram Khader from Salahuddin University and Prof. Najah Aboud Hussain from Basra University.

The first day included a workshop on the integrated environmental management of water resources in Iraq, in which Dr. Hussein Al-Atafi, Secretary General of the Arab Water Council, and former Minister of Water Resources in the Arab Republic of Egypt, and Dr. Ali Abdul-Zahra Al-Lami participated.