Environmental Policy Analyst and Author Paula Diperna to Speak at SUNY Delhi

DELHI, NY (03/16/2010)(readMedia)-- SUNY Delhi presents policy analyst and author Paula DiPerna who will speak on "Pricing the Priceless: The Experience of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX)" on Thursday, March 25, 7 p.m., in Evenden Tower Room 104.

Paula DiPerna is Executive Vice President of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and President, CCX International. DiPerna served formerly as President of the Joyce Foundation in Chicago, a major public policy philanthropy based in Chicago, Illinois, known for its innovative grantmaking; and Vice-President for International Affairs of the Cousteau Society, whose President was pioneer and ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

As Vice-President for International Affairs, DiPerna was responsible for all aspects of national and international environmental policy and interacted extensively with the U.S. Congress, Heads of State, and the United Nations. While at the Cousteau Society, from 1979 to 1997, DiPerna was also a writer and co-producer of many documentary films and has traveled extensively globally, including one year in the Amazon regions of Brazil, Columbia and Peru.

DiPerna also has served as a consultant on environmental matters to the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility, among other organizations. DiPerna also founded the "Jobs and Environment Initiative," which quantifies jobs creation benefits of environmental activities nationally and in various U.S. states.

DiPerna is also a noted public policy analyst and widely published author. She has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles on a variety of subjects, a novel and several non-fictions books. Cluster Mystery: Epidemic and the Children of Woburn, Mass., published in 1985, has become a touchstone of environmental epidemiology. DiPerna was named an Eisenhower Fellow in 1998, an international program for emerging leaders founded by the U.S. Congress and spent time in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic studying emerging environmental policy in Central Europe. DiPerna is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is based in the New York City office of CCX.

DiPerna's presentation is part of SUNY Delhi's participation in the United Nations Academic Impact initiative. SUNY Delhi has joined institutions of higher education from around the world in partnering with the U.N. and actively supporting 10 universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, literacy, sustainability, and conflict resolution as part of its Academic Impact. In doing so, the college has agreed to undertake at least one new activity or program per year that actively addresses one of the ten principles of the program. Delhi has chosen to focus on "A Commitment to Promoting Sustainability through Education."

"Paula DiPerna is an ideal person to inaugurate our U.N. Academic Initiative. Her experiences range from the Catskill ecosystem to the Copenhagen Summit. She is also among the most knowledgeable policy analysts in effecting solutions to the pressing problem of carbon emissions," said SUNY Delhi Provost John Nader.

This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. For more information, contact SUNY Delhi at (607) 746-4565.