Liz Barratt-Brown has worked for many years for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) beginning her career there in 1981 after graduating from Brown University. She also worked for Senator Lautenberg – where she helped craft the Toxic Release Inventory, the nation’s first community right-to-know act on toxic chemicals – before returning to Connecticut to earn her law degree from Yale Law School.
As a Senior Advisor to NRDC, Liz’s work is currently focused on protection of Canada’s Boreal forest with a focus on advancing Indigenous Rights and Indigenous-led protection initiatives. She has advocated against the expansion of logging in primary forests across Canada and extraction of the “tar sands” oil extraction in northern Alberta. She was central to the launch of the campaign against the Keystone XL pipeline, which sparked a national debate about investment in large scale fossil fuel projects. She has worked on numerous issues in Canada over the years, including stemming acid rain and protection of the temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound and the Great Bear Rainforest along the British Columbia coast.
Liz has also worked to strengthen global environmental treaties on climate change, biodiversity, and ozone depletion.