Official government website of the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 
The scientific sessions of the Second International Conference on Natural Resource Sustainability at Qassim University, on its second day, Tuesday, January 27, 2026, discussed five specialized tracks related to the concept of sustainability. These included sustainability and the circular economy, resource conservation, innovation and technology, as well as the ethical and health dimensions associated with rational consumption.
The first track discussed «Saudi Vision 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals for Optimal Resource Utilization, Renewable Energy, and Enhanced Spending Efficiency.» The session also focused on adopting artificial intelligence in date palm cultivation, recycling agricultural waste as a model for resource sustainability and localization of innovative industries (date palm and date waste in Saudi Arabia), in addition to multi-objective optimization models for reducing the cost of solar-powered desalination.
The second track was titled «Resource Sustainability and the Development of a Green and Circular Economy within Competitive Advantages,» to discuss research papers on integrating resource management to enhance sustainable performance within a circular economy, and the behavioral and cultural factors influencing energy consumption in Buraydah homes, and the role of education in stimulating innovation in clean energy technologies within the track of «Greening the Saudi Economy,» followed by a scientific discussion on the track's outcomes.
In the third track, titled «Environmental Sustainability, Rationalization of Natural Resource Use, and Development of Food, Transportation, and Tourism,» topics were discussed including measuring community awareness of the carbon footprint in the Eastern Province, developing the green and circular economy in Saudi Arabia through resource sustainability, the environmental impact of the sustainable fashion industry, in addition to the biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles from some filamentous fungi and their applications on medical textiles, with a discussion session for the track.
The fourth track focused on «Smart Consumption, Innovation, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence Contributions to Resource Sustainability,» through topics related to the impact of the social responsibility of Moroccan universities on student well-being, technical and economic evaluations for the application of «zero discharge of liquid waste» to support the industrial circular economy, and the adoption of digital twins in healthcare through the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) within Society 5.0 by modeling structural equations to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3).
The scientific sessions concluded with the fifth track titled «Rational Consumption from a Sharia Perspective, Environmental Ethics, Good Health, and Well-being.» Papers were presented that addressed the impact of ESG and its relationship to Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG14) on countries, including Islamic nations, in the context of managing seas and oceans. The sessions also covered the role of «green intellectual capital» in sustainable performance, with «contemplative ethical attention» as a mediating role, and the applications of deep learning in the sustainability of e-health services through predicting patient no-shows. In the closing session, recommendations, proposed policies, and a future roadmap were presented.
