The 2^nd Edition of Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability International scientific conference has taken place on the 5th of October 2022, online/ virtually. The first edition of the International Conference on Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability (CCES) in 2021 discussed the effects of greenhouse gases on Earth’s temperature and global warming. This year, the conference’s second edition has taken these previously-discussed pressing issues forward, tackled new threats that has become clearer today, presenting state-of-the-art solutions and steps forward in the process.

IEREK is an international company located in Egypt and Germany, with a name that stands for International Experts of Research Enrichment and Knowledge Exchange, reflecting its mission to create opportunities for knowledge propagation in various fields, foster cultural exchange, and contribute to the development of our society.  It does so through a number of activities in publishing, international conference organization (15 – 18 annually), collaborations with world renowned institutions and more.

This edition of the conference aligns with its vision of tackling major issues facing the world today in an effort to advance research and work to foster a cultural and knowledge exchange necessary for tackling them. For the second consecutive year, CCES 2022 is organized in collaboration with Chongqing University in China, chaired by Prof. Baojie He, who is a professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing University, China, for the second consecutive year after its success in 2021 with 100+ attending participants online and 420 registrations. Furthermore, this edition had received the support and guidance of Dr. Gloria Pignatta (University of New South Wales, Australia), Prof. Linchuan Yang (Southwest Jiaotong University, China), and Prof. Zhaouwu Yu (Fudan University, China)..

This year’s edition has received submissions from 60 different countries around the world, 290+ registrations and approximately 90 abstract submissions from the following countries: Albania, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Hong Kong S.A.R., India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua new Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.

The conference also welcomed world-renowned experts in the field such as Prof.Dr.E.Didem Evci Kiraz| from the Faculty Of Medicine Department Of Internal Medical Sciences, Department Of Public Health, Adnan Menderes University Aydin, Turkey, with a speech covering “Climate Determinants of Health”, followed by Dr Rongrong Cheacharoen’s, who is a Research Group Leader at Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, on “Energy conversion-storage devices towards carbon neutrality”. The last keynote of the conference, Dr. Joni Jupesta from the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) and a Lead author IPCC 6^th AR, Indonesia, with a Speech title on "The role of Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) in the industry".

The outcomes/ submissions of this conference will be published in the IEREK Interdisciplinary book series on Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation (ASTI) published by Springer Nature and indexed fully in Scopus. This 2^nd edition of the proceedings book will be following in the footsteps of the proceedings (the 1^st Edition) of the very first edition available at https://link.springer.com/book/9783031120145.