BBC journalist to speak about climate treaty prospects
October 2, 2015
BBC World Service's environment reporter Matt McGrath will speak about the outlook
for a proposed global climate treaty on Wednesday, Oct. 7., at 7 p.m. in the Murie
Building auditorium at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
McGrath's presentation will be the latest in the C.W. Snedden Endowment lecture series, sponsored
by the UAF Journalism Department in the College of Liberal Arts. Snedden owned the Fairbanks
Daily News-Miner from 1950 until his death in 1989. His widow, Helen, established
the endowment at the UA Foundation in 2003, and it supports both the lecture series
and an academic chair at the Journalism Department.
Countries involved with the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol will send representatives to Paris on Nov. 30 for a 12-day conference
on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. McGrath’s lecture is titled “Will Paris save
Alaska? Global climate treaty prospects for the U.S., Alaska and you!”
Originally from Tipperary, Ireland, McGrath joined BBC Radio 5live at its launch in
1994. He became the station’s science specialist in 1997 and joined the BBC World
Service in 2006 as environment reporter. He has covered such topics as mad cow disease,
cloning, global warming and genetically modified food. He has also reported on the
scientific impacts of doping in professional sports. He was a Knight Science Journalism
Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010-2011.
The College of Liberal Arts, the largest of UAF’s academic units, comprises the arts,
humanities, social sciences and language disciplines at UAF.
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