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A joint project of Duke Law School and the Nicholas School
of the Environment, the Environmental Law and Policy
Clinic operates as a live client clinic out of offices in the
Duke Law School building in Durham, N.C. Students work
under direct supervision of Clinic Director Ryke
Longest and Supervising Attorney Michelle Nowlin. Longest
worked for fourteen years as an environmental enforcement
attorney for the North Carolina Department of Justice prior
to coming to Duke. Nowlin is a joint-degree graduate from
Duke Law School and the Nicholas School, and worked for
the Southern Environmental Law Center in Chapel Hill for
13 years prior to returning to Duke.
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Forest Trends’ mission is to maintain, restore, and enhance
forests and connected natural ecosystems, life-sustaining
processes, by promoting incentives stemming from a broad
range of ecosystem services and products. Specifically, Forest
Trends seeks to catalyze the development of integrated
carbon, water, and biodiversity incentives that deliver real
conservation outcomes and benefits to local communities
and other stewards of our natural resources.
Forest Trends analyzes strategic market and policy issues,
catalyzes connections between producers, communities and
investors, and develops new financial tools to help markets
work for conservation and people.
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The Katoomba Group, part of the Forest Trends Family of
initiatives, is an international network of individuals working
to improve capacity related to incentives for ecosystem
services and products.
The Katoomba Group’s Legal Initiative works to clarify legal
issues and address technical gaps by (1) developing countryspecific
legal and policy information, (2) creating and sharing
transactional tools, and (3) providing capacity-building
around legal issues.
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