Natural Resources Defense Council-posted 3 days ago
Intern
Hybrid

NRDC is a non-profit environmental advocacy organization. We use law, science, and the support of 3.1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our people helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act and many of the implementing regulations. Today, our team of more than 700 lawyers, scientists, economists, policy advocates, communications experts, and others work across the United States and the globe from our offices in Beijing; Chicago; New Delhi; New York; San Francisco; Santa Monica; and Washington, D.C. NRDC is seeking a Summer 2026 Global Forest Policy intern to work with the Global Nature team associated with our Washington, D.C. and Santa Monica offices.

  • The Global Forest Policy Intern will work to support NRDC's work to build stronger accountability for forest degradation in international forest governance.
  • The Intern will engage with multilateral agreements, international law, and marketplace regulations to advance implementation of global commitments to halt and reverse deforestation and forest degradation by 2030.
  • They will propose creative approaches to reforming structures and norms that obscure the environmental impacts of industrial logging and develop bodies of research on historic and current inequities in global forest governance.
  • Researching forest governance law and policy.
  • Tracking lobbying behavior by governments and industry.
  • Drafting communications.
  • Conducting outreach to partners and experts.
  • Commitment to NRDC's mission and values.
  • Pursuing a graduate degree in law and/or policy.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Clear and strong writing.
  • Aptitude for policy research.
  • Ability to analyze and distill policy and scientific information.
  • Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
  • Proficiency in French, Swedish, or Portuguese.
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