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Working toward policies fostering global forest accountability @ NRDC. Clinical lecturer @ YLS. Corgi mom.
Trust me, the last thing you want if things get cataclysmic is the specter of a 4:30pm sunset. Dark times (literally).
17.04.2025 00:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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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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 todayβin 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: β’ 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; β’ threaten law firms and legal clinics for their lawyers' pro bono work or prior government service; β’ relent on those arbitrary threats based on public acts of submission and outlays of funds for favored causes; and β’ 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,β¦
From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students.
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If the Paris Agreement is seen as displacing any other basis for climate reckoning or recompense, I imagine that wouldn't sit well with countries already disenchanted with the pace and tenor of the process and looking for other means of propelling action from the wealthiest nations. 3/3
06.12.2024 18:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Aside from the gut-wrenching callousness of it all, many countries' attempts to frame the Paris Agreement as the sole repository for climate obligations makes seems like another blow to the already-beleaguered UNFCCC negotiations. 2/3
06.12.2024 18:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The 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
06.12.2024 18:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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.
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βCanadaβs 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 countryβs main commercial logging regionsβ www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/w...
#COP28UAE didnβt just bring down the curtain on fossil fuelsβit also enshrined a new era of equitable, global ambition on the protection of the worldβs climate-critical forests. www.nrdc.org/bio/jennifer...
14.12.2023 00:46 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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 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/...
13.11.2023 05:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
"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." βSikeade Egbuwalo, Ministry of Environment of Nigeria
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