Kegan Pepper-Smith
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About Kegan Pepper-Smith
Kegan Pepper-Smith is the managing lawyer at Ecojustice. As a member of the nature and climate teams, Kegan’s practice focuses on protecting at-risk species and developing novel litigation to hold governments and industry to account over climate commitments. He also works to reform laws and policies to provide greater protection for ecosystems and to support a just transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. Shaped by his upbringing on a small Gulf Island, Kegan spends most of his free time exploring forests and frolicking in the ocean.
B.C.’s forestry laws protect industry over people
The province is in a biodiversity crisis with over 1,800 at-risk species.