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Jennifer Skene

@jenskene.bsky.social
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International forest governance @ NRDC. Clinical lecturer @ YLS. Corgi mom.

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Jennifer Skene @jenskene.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Trump's push for carveouts and delays is an effort to hold the world back from the safe, sustainable supply chains we’ve now seen are possible. The EUDR has already helped open up that better future–we need the EU to stand strong. Thank you, @doggett.house.gov , for your leadership.
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Rep. Lloyd Doggett @doggett.house.gov · 27/04/2026
As 25M acres of forests are destroyed each year, I led my colleagues in urging the European Union to stand tall against Trump's bullying. Our forests serve as our planet's lungs and home to so many unique plants and animals. The EU Deforestation Regulation is critical to protect forests worldwide.
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Jennifer Skene @jenskene.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I have an op-ed in The Guardian today about the dangers of forest policy that fails to hold the most powerful accountable. The U.S. is highlighting just how urgently our system, built on the assumption that the Global North is a responsible actor, needs to change. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Logging is quietly ravaging US forests. Trump is taking an axe to protections
Unsustainable logging is one of the global north’s best-kept secrets. We’re running out of time to stop it
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students. tinyurl.com/letter-to-ou...
A LETTER TO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS
March 29, 2025
To our students:
We are privileged to teach and learn the law with you. We write to you today—in our individual capacities-because we believe that American legal precepts and the institutions designed to uphold them are being severely tested, and many of you have expressed to us your concerns and fears about the present moment.
Each of us brings different, sometimes irreconcilable, perspectives to what the law is and should be. Diverse viewpoints are a credit to our school. But we share, and take seriously, a commitment to the rule of law: for people to be equal before it, and for its administration to be impartial. That commitment is foundational to the whole legal profession, and to the special role that lawyers play in our society. As the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provide: "A lawyer is ... an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice."
The rule of law is imperiled when government leaders:
• single out lawyers and law firms for retribution based on their lawful and ethical representation of clients disfavored by the government, undermining the Sixth Amendment;
• threaten law firms and legal clinics for their lawyers' pro bono work or prior government service;
• relent on those arbitrary threats based on public acts of submission and outlays of funds for favored causes; and
• punish people for lawfully speaking out on matters of public concern.
While reasonable people can disagree about the characterization of particular incidents, we are all acutely concerned that severe challenges to the rule of law are taking place, and we strongly condemn any effort to undermine the basic norms we have described.
On our own campus and at many other universities, international students have reported fear of imprisonment or deportation for lawful speech and political activism. Whatever we might each think about particular conduct under particular facts,…
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Jennifer Skene @jenskene.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The ICJ proceedings are a fascinating "masks-off" moment for developed countries. Stripped of the cover of UNFCCC jargon and procedures, and isolated from the comfort of collective cop-outs, the wealthiest countries are starkly monologuing their indifference to business-as-usual's global toll. 1/3
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Jennifer Skene @jenskene.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
This International Day of Forests, organizations from around the world are calling for a long-overdue element in global efforts to curb deforestation and forest degradation: accountability. www.nrdc.org/bio/jennifer...
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130+ Organizations Urge Accountability on Forest Protection
In a joint statement to international leaders, groups from around the world call for global accountability as essential to delivering on forest commitments.
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
“Canada’s Logging Industry Devours Forests Crucial to Fighting Climate Change A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the country’s main commercial logging regions” www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/w...
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Canada’s Logging Industry Devours Forests Crucial to Fighting Climate Change
A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the country’s main commercial logging regions.
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Jennifer Skene @jenskene.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
#COP28UAE didn’t just bring down the curtain on fossil fuels–it also enshrined a new era of equitable, global ambition on the protection of the world’s climate-critical forests. www.nrdc.org/bio/jennifer...
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COP28 Delivers Call for Global Action on Forest Protection
The protection of climate-critical forests around the world has put down roots at the center of climate ambition.
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Jennifer Skene @jenskene.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Through establishing a Glasgow Declaration Accountability Framework, countries can avoid the pitfalls that have plagued forest policy for decades, creating a system grounded in equity and truly global cooperation. #COP28 t.co/JiMMQuGjeW
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More than 100 Organizations Call for a Forest Accountability Framework
At the start of COP28, civil society groups from around the world are urging countries to establish a Glasgow Declaration Accountability Framework (GDAF).
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Jennifer Skene @jenskene.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
More than 100 scientists from around the world have called on Canada to stop undermining global progress on forest protection & align its policy with scientific consensus around the degrading impact of industrial logging in primary and old-growth forests. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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Scientists call on Canada to adopt ecologically minded forest degradation definition
TORONTO - The Canadian government must take action to stop the degradation of its forests from large-scale industrial logging, a letter signed by more than 100 scientists urged Wednesday.
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Jennifer Skene @jenskene.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
"The vision of Nigeria and the rest of Africa through the development of this accountability framework is to ensure that the World truly unites and responds as one." —Sikeade Egbuwalo, Ministry of Environment of Nigeria t.co/RLghdbsB1R
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Leaders Call for Forest Accountability in Climate Week Event
Leading voices call for global accountability on protecting the world's climate-critical forests in NRDC's Climate Week panel event.
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