The College of Agriculture organized a consultative seminar on the carbon footprint and the role of forests in reducing it, with the participation of the dean, faculty members, and students.

The symposium shed light on tourism, carbon dioxide, and water into sugar and oxygen. The symposium included two lectures one of them given by Prof. Dr. Mahdi Hadi Mohsen, in which he explained how to use satellite data in estimating forest density, and the second one given by Prof. Mohamed Muntaz Ibrahim, in which he explained the role of forests in reducing the environmental pollution. The symposium recommended the need to preserve the remaining forests of Iraq, reforestation destroyed by human and other factors, spreading cultural awareness among the groups of society through the media and explaining the importance of preserving them, and issuing legislation and laws that preserve forests and protect them from deliberate razing.