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We are pleased to announce that the Global NEST Journal and the proceedings of the International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST) are now published together on a single platform.

Until now, the journal and the conference proceedings were maintained as two separate websites. Bringing them together means that the full body of work published under Global NEST — journal papers and conference proceedings alike — can now be found, read and cited in one place.

What this means for you

• Your existing links continue to work. Every address published in the past, including every DOI, will take you to the correct page. Citations printed in published articles, links held in academic databases, and your own bookmarks all continue to resolve, and nothing needs to be updated.
• The conference proceedings are now fully searchable. More than 1,600 papers presented at CEST2017 through CEST2025 can be browsed by conference and by topic, or searched by keyword, title and author, alongside the journal’s own archive.
• Nothing is asked of you. Authors, reviewers and editors will find their accounts, submissions and history exactly as they left them. No new registration is required, and no action is needed on your part.

Browsing the proceedings

The conference proceedings can be explored from the Proceedings page, where papers may be narrowed down by conference and by research topic, or searched directly. Each paper carries its own permanent address and DOI, exactly as before.

A note of thanks

Bringing two long-standing archives together, while ensuring that every published reference continues to resolve, has been a considerable undertaking. We are grateful to our authors, reviewers and editors for their patience, and we hope the result makes the work published under Global NEST easier to find and to build upon.

Should you notice anything unexpected, or have any difficulty locating a paper, please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office. We will be glad to assist.

Sincerely,
The Global NEST Editorial Office

We are pleased to share that all the manuscripts submitted after 1st January 2026 will be available under an open access license. Specifically, Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY 4.0) license allows users to:

1. Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
2. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
    

To attribute, one must:

• give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made

> For more information, please visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Global NEST Journal invites authors to submit their research for review and publication in a Special Issue on Circular Economy and Waste-to-Resource Technologies in Industrial Ecology.

The issue will also include papers presented at the 5th International Symposium on Environmental Science and Industrial Ecology (ISESIE 2025) scheduled for August 1-3, 2025, in Bangkok, Thailand (http://isesie.org/index.html).

The paper submission will be launched on 22 August 2025, and the submission deadline is 30 December 2025. 

To proceed with the online submission of your paper, you should first register to the Global NEST Journal’s website. After logging in, you will be able to submit your manuscript. Please make sure to choose “S.I. CE & WtR in Industrial Ecology” in the Topic field.

The Global Network of Environmental Science and Technology, in collaboration with the Open University of Cyprus (OUC), the University of the Aegean (Greece) and the University of Salerno (Italy) will co-organize the 19th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology https://cest.gnest.org/ . The Conference will be held on the island of Kos, from 3 to 6 September 2025 Interested participants are invited to submit their abstracts and articles by 25 January 2025 via the following link:https://cms.gnest.org/ 

 The Chair of the conference is Professor Demetris-Francis Lekkas (University of the Aegean), with co-chairs Professor Vincenzo Belgiorno (University of Salerno) and Associate Professor Antonis Zorpas, Director of the Master’s Degree Programme in “Sustainable Environmental Engineering” and the Chemical Engineering and Engineering Sustainability Laboratory at OUC. 

The conference is being organized at a crucial time when the climate change is significantly affecting both natural ecosystems and societies. The conference will bring together scientists from diverse disciplines to address various crucial environmental issues, such as climate change, aquatic ecosystems, health and biodiversity. It will also discuss various management practices for different situations and explore the role of the circular economy in mitigating negative impacts on the environment and promoting innovative solutions that promote the environmental and economic resilience of systems.

Thematic Areas

• Water and wastewater treatment and reuse.
• Circular economy and bioeconomy.
• Plastics in the environment.
• Solid waste management.
• Environmental management and policies.
• Artificial intelligence in environmental applications.
• Environmental pollution.
• Ecology, environmental change and management.
• Hydrology and water resources.
• Environmental health & well-being.
• Energy technologies.
• Climate change.

ORCID is now available at Global NEST

Starting from 31/12/2024, you are now able to login with your ORCID to our platform.

The procedure is as follows:

1. In the login screen, a new button is available:
   
2. Clicking the button "Log in with ORCID" will redirect you to the ORCID's website, to the login page, where you will be able to enter your ORCID credentials.
   
3. When you return to our site after your successful login, you will be asked for an email. 
   IMPORTANT: Please, note, that ORCID does not share the email associated with your ORCID account. That means, that you will have to provide the email you hold with us separately in the next screen.
   NOTE: You can use a different email locally than the one you have in ORCID. Please, use the email of your existing account if you already have one.
4. If your email does not exist in our database, you will be prompted to create a new account. Then, you will be redirected to your profile page where you can link your account with ORCID.
   
5. If you already have an account, you will be prompted to login first to ensure the account is yours.
   
6. When the account link is complete, your account header will look similar to this:
   

* If you are already logged in to our platform, simply go to your profile and click the corresponding button to initiate the account linking.

After that, you will be able to login to our platform using the ORCID without the need to pass the CAPTCHA challenge.

More updates are upcoming regarding ORCID. Stay tunned...