ICSAEES 2024 Preface

The First International Conference on Sustainable Applied Earth and Environmental Sciences (ICSAEES 2024) was held in hybrid mode at the Lakesource Publishing Company Conference Hall, Ikate Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria, from 27 th to 29 th August, 2024. ICSAEES 2024 is the maiden edition of the annual international conference initiated by the Society of Sustainable Applied Earth and Environmental Sciences (SSAEES) in collabration with the Lakesource Publishing Company (LPC). The aim of this conference is to gather new research contributions from all disciplines of Applied Renewable Energy and Environmental Earth Sciences by scientists from diverse backgrounds, and thus makes an essential contribution towards ensuring that science and technology contribute to the promotion of a more sustainable environment from different parts of the world. It is our belief that the proceedings in ICSAEES would help to address the numerous local and national challenges that are relevant to the realisation of the United Nation’s “Global Goals” generally referred to as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs were crafted with the intention of ensuring better quality life, peace and prosperity for all people, as well as protecting and preserving our environment and planet in general. We appreciate all our Keynote Speakers: Prof. Mohammad Alam Saeed (Vice-Chancellor, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan), Prof. K. Srinivas Reddy (Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India), Prof. Anand K. Plappally (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India), Dr. Masood Yousaf (University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan), Dr. Anil Kumar (Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India), Dr. M. V. Reddy (Energy Storage Technology, New Graphite World, Quebec, Montreal, Canada) and Dr. Babatunde Abiodun Obadele (Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Palapye, Botswana; & University of Johannesburg, South Africa) for honouring our invitations and for the insightful experiences they have shared during the ICSAEES 2024. The Organising Team is happy to report success in the number of papers submitted and presented in the maiden edition of the ICSAEES 2024. We received 39 papers from Nigeria, India, Indonesia, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The papers were blinded peer reviewed by number of experts and revised by the authors prior to final acceptance of 19 papers. This present volume has an acceptance rate of 48.7%. The proceedings of the ICSAEES 2024 are published in the current volume of IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, which are divided into five (5) Sections relating to Applied Earth and Environmental aspects of the SDGs as stated on the conference website (https://icsaees.com.ng/). The Sections are Applied Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development; Applied Earth Sciences for Sustainable Development; Applied Environmental Sciences for Sustainable Development; Applied Environmental Impact Assessment for Sustainable Development; and Applied Atmospheric Studies for Sustainable Development. Various topics presented in this volume will be useful to researchers, industrialists, experts, scholars, students, among others in the fields of Science, Engineering, Social Sciences, and associated fields in connection with the sustainability related issues. List ICSAEES 2024 Committee of Directors, Scientific Committee and ICSAEES 2024 Reviewers are available in this pdf.