Speaking and moderation
Jen chairs panels, speaks and MCs at climate and nature events – carbon markets, forests, nature finance, nature tech. As a moderator her job is to have read everything first, keep the answers specific, and get everyone off stage on time.
Her career started at Westminster Abbey and in the household of The Queen at Buckingham Palace, then senior editorial roles at the Independent and Evening Standard. She is comfortable with a microphone and unbothered about asking the awkward question. Technical speakers are her favourite kind. The harder the subject, the more an audience needs someone translating.
Watch
Recent sessions on camera.
Rebuilding trust in carbon markets · Reset Connect London 2026
Jen chaired this panel on scaling credible carbon credits for business, with Jodi Manning (Cool Effect), Marina Azcarate (Mitti Labs) and Olivia Powis (Carbon Capture & Storage Association). Net Zero Business Stage, 23 June 2026.
Conversations@hub101.earth · LCAW 2026 special
Recorded during London Climate Action Week in June 2026.
Communicating and marketing Plan Vivo projects · Plan Vivo stakeholder meeting
Jen moderated this session as a Plan Vivo trustee, with Jo Anderson (Carbon Tanzania), Will Sheldon (Taking Root), Lorenzo Curci (Earthly) and Diana Wrangham. September 2024.
Communications in the voluntary carbon market · Carbon Exposure, COP28 special
In conversation with René Velásquez for the COP28 series, on what the voluntary carbon market gets wrong when it explains itself. 2023.
Listen
Podcasts on carbon markets, forests, and how this sector explains itself.
Take-aways from London Climate Action Week 2026
With Shauna Matkovich of The ForestLink, on why carbon market demand is strengthening and what that asks of the people communicating it.
New York Climate Week: take-aways for forest climate finance
With Shauna Matkovich of The ForestLink, on seeing forests as “an essential, durable infrastructure” and why “the biggest risk isn’t reversals, it’s delay”.
“I think there’s now a communications gap between where carbon markets actually are and where people think they are. Much of the public narrative is still stuck in 2023, while the market itself has moved forward substantially.”
On stage
Moderating, MC-ing and facilitating carbon market and nature finance sessions in London, New York, Belém, Paris and Cali.
Coming up
Jen will be at all of these and is available to speak, moderate or MC.
- Nordic Climate Finance Summit Oslo · 9–10 September 2026 · Speaker
- Climate Week NYC New York · 20–27 September 2026 · Moderator
- UN Biodiversity COP17 Yerevan, Armenia · 19–30 October 2026
- UN Climate COP31 Antalya, Türkiye · 9–20 November 2026
Topics
- Carbon markets – integrity, demand and the trust gap
- Communicating climate and nature without the jargon
- Forests and finance – making the investment case
- Nature tech and biodiversity
For organisers
Planning an event?
Tell Jen the session, the audience and the date. If she is right for it she will say so, and if she is not she will point you to someone better.
