By UW-Eau Claire Integrated Marketing and Communications
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference continues this week in Paris, students in an honors course at UW-Eau Claire will offer their solutions to the problem as part of a public presentation on Thursday.
Students in Dr. James Boulter’s University Honors course on climate change science and policy will present the panel discussion at 12:30 p.m. in the Woodland Theater in Davies Student Center. They will share the results of their semester-long study of climate change and the issues it raises, and will provide their reasons for optimism in the face of what sometimes seems an overwhelming challenge.
Boulter is director of UW-Eau Claire’s Watershed Institute for Collaborative Environmental Studies and an associate professor of chemistry. His research interests focus on energy and climate issues and atmospheric chemistry. He is the co-leader of the Eau Claire chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, which is focused on national policies to address climate change, and has given many talks and presentations on the environment, sustainability and climate change.
Nearly 200 nations are represented at the Paris summit meeting on climate change, which began on Nov. 30 and will run until Friday. Its goal is to reach a new legally binding international agreement addressing climate change.