Preface

Abstract

The International Conference on Energy and Sustainable Environment (ICESE) has gained much visibility internationally and has become the largest gathering of energy and environment experts in sub-Saharan Africa. The second edition of the conference (ICESE 2020) held 28-30 July 2020 at Covenant University. Due to the travel restriction via the global pandemic-COVID-19, the conference was a virtual conference hosted on ZOOM. Over one hundred and forty participants from five continents attended the conference. The keynote speakers were Prof Adeola Adenikinju and Prof Fidelis Emuze.This year’s conference focused on four thematic areas: energy, energy management, built environment, and environment & global change. New energy innovations were presented with the focus of sustainable development. Different policies on building environments were propounded at the conference. Therefore, building firms and the government of nations need to peruse the main proceedings to key-into sustainable building planning.The issues on the environment and global climate were dynamically discussed. The focus of conference participants ranged from pollution to primary agents that activate a different process in the environment. There were focuses on the COVID-19 with salient predictions and preventive suggestions for a sustainable environment. The challenges and prospect of energy management, which spans through, technologies, finance, and optimizations, were discussed holistically.List of CONFERENCE TECHNICAL/SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (LOCAL), CONFERENCE TECHNICAL/SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (INTERNATIONAL), LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE, “VIRTUAL CONFERENCE PROTOCOL” and this titles available in this pdf.