Jessica Green is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, with cross appointments at the School of Environment and the Munk School of Public Affairs. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from Princeton University and MPA from Columbia University. Her research is focused on climate governance, including carbon markets, the implementation of the Paris Agreement and green industrial policy.

Her first book, Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance challenges the conventional wisdom that nation-states are the only relevant actors in solving collective action problems, instead showing how non-state actors can serve as rulemakers to address global challenges like climate change. It received best book awards from the International Studies Association, the American Political Science Association, and the International Political Science Association. In 2023, she was elected as a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. Her second book, Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions are Failing and How to Fix Them, was published in October 2025 with Princeton University Press.

She publishes regularly in both scholarly journals and popular publications including Nature, Nature Climate Change, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail and The Boston Review.

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The David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series is coordinated by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE), and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). This seminar is also co-sponsored by the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy and the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance.

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