About Holly Pearen

Holly Pearen

Lead Counsel

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Boulder, Colorado Office

Work

Areas of expertise:

Carbon markets, financial regulation, environmental marketing claims, carbon accounting

Holly Pearen is Lead Counsel for EDF’s Carbon Pricing team. In that role, she develops and executes high impact strategies on complex carbon pricing initiatives. Fundamental to her work is close collaboration with senior policymakers, leading legal and regulatory experts, private sector leaders and associations, and NGO partners and allies. She brings nearly twenty years of legal experience at the intersection of natural resource and financial markets, and a background in economics, to advance and protect EDF’s climate, public health and environmental priorities. 

Background

Prior to joining EDF, Holly represented banking and financial clients in litigation involving natural resource assets and worked as an Attorney-Advisor for the Department of the Interior, Southwest Regional Office of the Solicitor. She has a J.D., with focus on Environmental Law from Lewis & Clark Law School, an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and studied at the London School of Economics.