The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naim Al-Aboudi, honored the winners of the Scientific Research Award for Climate and its impact on security, stability and sustainability in Iraq.

In his speech during his meeting with the researchers in the presence of the Director General of the Research and Development Department, Dr. Lubna Khamis Mahdi, he stressed the importance of linking scientific research paths to the requirements of sustainable development, whose goals are distributed in the environmental, economic and social fields, noting that the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research pays intensive attention to the contribution of universities to achieve the highest level of response to the global development goals of the United Nations, which made our academic institutions record their positive competition in the Times Sustainable Development Ranking, which showed Iraq in seventh place globally.

He added that higher education and scientific research institutions have visions and solutions embodied by specialists from professors and graduate students through sober scientific research to face emerging challenges, especially those related to environmental and climatic changes.

The Minister of Education added that the Iraqi government is interested in supporting scientific research with international publication, pointing out that the ministry adopts a special policy and qualitative interest in scientific research by honoring researchers with financial amounts and a book of thanks and appreciation as an incentive to publish in international journals affiliated with (Nature and Science Journals) and (TOP Journals in shanghai Ranking).

The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naim Al-Abboudi, presented five million and a book of thanks and appreciation to ten winning researchers from the universities of Baghdad, Southern Technology, Dhi Qar, Qadisiyah, Kufa, Wasit, Karbala, Hamdaniya and Dijla, and renewed the process of enhancing publishing spaces