2:02 p.m., April 9, 2009----D. James Baker, director of the Global Carbon Measurement Program of the William J. Clinton Foundation, will speak at noon, Thursday, April 16, in the Perkins Student Center Gallery as part of the University of Delaware's Energy and Environmental Policy Colloquium.

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Baker's topic will be “Tropical Trees: Reducing Carbon Emissions and Poverty with Measurements and Markets.”

Baker was educated as a physicist and practiced as an oceanographer. As director of the Clinton Foundation program, he uses forestry programs to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and to alleviate poverty in developing countries.

Baker is also a science and management consultant with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO in Paris and the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment in Washington, D.C., where he focuses on improving monitoring and warning systems for weather, climate, and environmental change.

He was a scientific adviser to former Vice President Al Gore on the Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth. He has more than 100 scientific publications and is the author of the book Planet Earth: View from Space, published by Harvard University Press.

Most recently, Baker was president and chief executive officer of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia where he established new research programs and created a popular Town Square public discussion forum on topics ranging from urban sustainability to global

The colloquium is sponsored by the University's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, the graduate program in energy and environmental policy and the College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy.