Jennifer Skene
About Jennifer Skene
Jennifer Skene is the natural climate solutions policy manager with the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Canada Team. Based in Santa Monica, Calif., her work focuses on primary forest protection in the Canadian boreal and other northern forests, forest carbon accounting and regulation, and the creation of Indigenous-led protected areas. She is a clinical lecturer at the Yale Law School, where she previously co-directed the Environmental Protection Clinic.
Canada should close the logging gap in its climate plan
When it comes to industrial logging emissions in Canada, policymakers — and the public — are largely in the dark.
Logging plays by its own rules in Canada’s climate targets
The atmosphere doesn’t discern between carbon emitted from forests and carbon from fossil fuels — but Canada does, writes Jennifer Skene of the Natural Resources Defense Council.