Global environmental challenges to highlight Frank Church conference

The 26th annual Frank Church conference will will feature and analyze current environmental and political challenges to pending negotiations on international climate change Oct 20.

Since its establishment in 1982, the Frank Church Institute has created the Frank Church Chair of Public Affairs at Boise State University to continue the principles of Frank Church, who represented Idaho in the U.S. Senate from 1957-1981. The Frank Church institute’s goal is to build the endowment to fully fund the Frank Church Chair of Public Affair, fund the annual Frank Church conferences, and fund the proposed scholarship at BSU.

The subheading for this year’s conference is: “The Global Environment: From Kyoto to Copenhagen.”

The conference will feature policy experts from a wide variety of institutions giving their thoughts on the possible outcomes of the international summit held in Copenhagen, Denmark last December.

COURTESY: Frank Church Institution

The keynote speaker for the event is William Davis, Director of the United Nations Center in Washington D.C. He will give the keynote speech on: “The Political Climate for Climate Change Negotiations.”

Davis will speak at 7:30 p.m. in Jordan Ballroom in the SUB.

Davis is the UN’s senior representative in Washington, serving as a spokesman for the UN and working with officials in the executive and legislative branches, the media, the public and business community. Before joining the UN, Davis worked for global and functional affairs in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Legislative affairs, where he oversaw departmental interactions with the U.S. Congress on global priorities. Davis also worked as the department’s senior legislative adviser on relations with Congress in regards to the Secretary of State’s Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization.

Other speakers participating in the conference are: William Meadows (president, The Wilderness Society), Matthew McHugh (former Democratic representative from New York), Dan Miller (former Republican representative of Florida), Michael Buck (National Association of State Foresters), John Gardner (Vice President for energy research, policy and campus sustainability for BSU), and Don Reading (Vice President of Ben Johnson Associates).

The conference runs from 8:30 a.m.- 2 p.m. For more information about the conference or to see when certain speakers will be speaking click here.

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