Jade Pradines

Jade Pradines is an Associate Consultant at Climate Focus, supporting work on carbon markets, forests, and biodiversity. She currently conducts research and provides advisory services on nature-based solutions, forest governance, biodiversity policies, and Indigenous People and Local Communities rights. Before joining Climate Focus, Jade worked for the Environment and Green Spaces Office of the City of Paris, implementing the renewal of the Environmental Management Systems’ certification for the Boulogne Forest. With a particular interest in biodiversity preservation, she wrote her Master’s thesis on the role of biodiversity in Environmental Management.

Jade has a law background. She completed a double-degree in Italian and French law at the Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna (Italy) and graduated from the Sorbonne University in Paris with a first Master’s Degree in Environmental Law and a second Master’s degree in Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, and Geomatics.

She is deeply interested in investigating the environmental crises faced by Indigenous People and Local Communities. Her travels across Latin America gave her the opportunity to witness the social and environmental implications of deforestation in Nicaragua, where industrial pressures are increasing rapidly.

Jade can speak French, Italian, and Spanish. She is happiest when creating music, singing, songwriting, and dancing. She also loves nurturing her connection to nature and engaging with other people by sharing spaces and plant medicine such as ceremonial cacao.