Jens Wieting

Jens Wieting

Senior Policy & Science Advisor

jens@sierraclub.bc.ca
250-386-5255 ext 107

Jens has over 20 years of international experience protecting forests and supporting climate action, guided by the realization that we cannot stabilize the climate without intact forests, and we cannot save intact forests without a stable climate. He promotes science-based solutions to safeguard biodiversity and wind down fossil fuels while respecting and incorporating Indigenous rights and knowledge and leaving no one behind.

Growing up on the coast of the North Sea in West Germany, Jens became passionate about nature at a young age. After high school, he got hooked on forests after spending some time in the Amazon rainforest region of Ecuador. He studied land use planning at the Technische Universität Berlin, where he also worked for a land use planning office.

Prior to coming to Canada, Jens worked as Tropical Forest Campaigner for German environmental organization Robin Wood, with a focus on protecting rainforests in Indonesia from the pulp and paper industry. He also worked for the German development cooperation to support conservation planning in the Biosphere Reserve Bosawas, the largest tropical rainforest region of Central America in Nicaragua. Jens has written numerous articles for Canadian and German newspapers about environmental issues.

Jens enjoys spending time with his family, hiking and camping in the rainforest, mountains and on the coast. He is a passionate nature photographer, always ready to get muddy to take pictures of critters and ancient trees in the old-growth forests he loves.