Jennifer Skene

Jennifer Skene works through global policy to address forest degradation across the Global North. Skene's advocacy elevates the long-overlooked climate and biodiversity impacts of industrial logging in boreal and temperate forests and addresses deeply embedded, inequitable paradigms that allow developed countries to avoid scrutiny for their forest impacts. Through accountability mechanisms to drive implementation of international commitments, forest carbon accounting reforms, trade and marketplace regulations, and other policies, she is working to entrench new standards for forest degradation and Indigenous rights violations in the Global North and advance truly international forest protection. Skene is also a clinical lecturer at Yale Law School, where she co-teaches the Environmental Protection Clinic, and a member of the World Commission on Environmental Law and the IUCN Climate Crisis Commission. She has a JD from Yale Law School and a bachelor of science degree from Northwestern University’s School of Communication. She is based in the Santa Monica office.

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