Annie Schultz

Policy & Advocacy Advisor @Treeaid | Talks 🌳&✊ with African Dryland communities 👩🏿‍🌾 | Ex @MetOffice_Sci Climate Sci Comms & @ClimateWorksAus
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[Tree Aid @TREEAID]

Our advocacy team is in Ethiopia this week 👇

Attending and delivering training at a 2-day workshop, @SchultzAnnie1 and @PietroCarpena joined others in identifying opportunities for scaling up community-led forest restoration in Ethiopian drylands.

Check back for more updates.

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

Our gender expert, Nathalie Palogo, shares a lesson from @TreeAid 35+ years restoring forests in the Great Green Wall, today at #GLFNairobi

"Women are the guardians of the forests. It is crucial to improve their access to natural resources and capacity building".

[Tree Aid @TREEAID]

Catch our Gender and Social Inclusion Officer Nathalie Palogo at this event tomorrow, discussing how improving women’s access to land is crucial to sustainable and scaled-up #LandRestoration across the #GreatGreenWall 👇
https://t.co/HnVq8zUVK2

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

👍Couldn't agree more with @ibrahimthiaw at @Europarl_EN @RenewEurope
📢Message for Multilateral banks (@AfDB_Group), Global funds (@theGEF @theGCF) & EU institutions
💵To transform the $19bn into hectares, we must accelerate spending and localise it towards local comunities 👨🏿‍🌾

[Africa-Europe Foundation @AfricaEuropeFdn]

📢Join us for the Accelerating The Great Green Wall conference.

The conference will convene stakeholders from Africa & Europe to discuss how to enhance the partnership & develop credible strategies for investment in the Great Green Wall.

Register ☞https://t.co/XjIsoFIUYf

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

Agreed, @Nature :
"it’s essential that the original vision of Africa’s Great Green Wall is not filed away in the ‘too difficult’ box"

At @TREEAID, evidence from the ground shows that funds channelled to local communities & civil society are key to success
https://t.co/u1Fh9PgmHm

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

👍 to hear @AndrewmitchMP at @royafrisoc on:
👩🏿‍🌾 ravages of #ClimateCrisis & #desertification in African drylands: "In Niger, 500 football pitches worth of fertile land are lost everyday"
💰 UK's role to improve access to climate finance for African climate frontlines countries

[Royal African Society @royafrisoc]

Join us on the 24th at @SOASuni for a keynote address by Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP @AndrewmitchMP.

https://t.co/uxQ6Ik9k2j

@NickWestcottRAS @aoteh

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

👩🏿For #InternationalWomensDay, @TREEAID colleagues & I explain why women are central to building the @GreenWallAfrica for @wef:

💪🏿When their leadership is prioritized in how we manage local forests, we see benefits for communities & land 👇🏿

https://t.co/NS90GS9r4S

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

Very cool new @Nature research 👇

"The fewer trees there are, the more important they become. This is especially true in dryland ecosystems, where [they] provide a range of crucial environmental services & benefits to local inhabitants"🌳
👉 @ICRAF M. van Noordwijk & J. Balaya

[nature @Nature]

This week in Nature: Root and branch - inventory reveals carbon storage in 9.9 billion trees across African dryland. Browse the full issue here: https://t.co/JRcQfE8Mof

[nature @Nature]

This week in Nature: Root and branch - inventory reveals carbon storage in 9.9 billion trees across African dryland. Browse the full issue here: https://t.co/JRcQfE8Mof

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

Good to see further evidence of the #climatefinance gap to influence a fairer new global climate finance goal, so the needs of the Global South communities who at the frontline of climate impacts can actually be supported 👇

[Leia says @LeiaLdn]

Low quality & low quantities of #climatefinance are ruining the economic & social prospects of climate-vulnerable Global South countries. Ahead of the March #UNFCCC meetings on a new global climate finance goal, a @Eurodad case study has been published: https://t.co/iOxe6LcJmv

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

🤔"So, how was COP?" Honestly, the rythm of #cop27 was so intense that I couldn't have answered that question last week!

💡 Now that the post-COP brain fog has somewhat dissipated, here are the highlights we got from representing Tree Aid at the annual climate conference 👇

[Tree Aid @TREEAID]

"Local authorities & CSOs are vital to see this mosaic of actions delivered effectively & efficiently" #GreatGreenWall

Our latest blog from CEO, @tomskirrowtrees & Policy & Advocacy Advisor @SchultzAnnie1, shares our #COP27 reflections and next steps 👇

https://t.co/nrNv8SYKlc

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

🙏🏻@UNCCD Deputy Exec Sec @AndreaMeza76 facilitates a panel with @theGCF @theGEF @ggwnigeria on how the @GreenWallAfrica can be scaled up from the current 15% of implementation.

We only have 8 years left & the communities on the #climate frontline are out of time ⌛️

#cop27

[Green Climate Fund @theGCF]

Don't miss this #GCFGEFinAction joint #COP27 event on progress made & synergistic opportunities in #GreatGreenWall ▶️ https://t.co/prqgm4ADbH
🇳🇬 @MohdHAbdullahi
🇳🇪 @GaramaSaratou
🇲🇷 Min. Lalya Aly Karama
@JosefaSacko
@andersen_inger
@AndreaMeza76
@Jo_Puri
@abarnwal
@fuentescc

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

🇸🇳Fantastic to hear Sénégal’s Minister of Environment Alioune Ndoeye affirm the importance of the @GreenWallAfrica in the new “Programme pour un Sénégal Emergent”

👩🏿‍🌾Looking forward to hearing how the #pse will enable civil society to build the GGW further!

#cop27egypt #Africa

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

To Accelerate #Adaptation in #Africa, @JohnKerry & #cop27 President Samey Shoukry announced a set of support initiatives for farmers and local level solutions.

Cool - but we’re far from the trillions 💵 we need.

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

😃 To hear @TREEAID Georges Bazongo with a great @GlobalLF panel @cop27:

Supporting African rural communities develop🌳 products value chains can hugely increase their incomes, becoming the best incentives to regreening their landscapes

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

👏🏻 @SarahToumi on where the 19bn pledged @oneplanetsummit 4️⃣@GreenWallAfrica are at:

80% of pledges engaged - good. Yet, they’re not going to civil society, the backbone of the GGW.

👍 that @UNCCD GGW Accelerator is pushing for better access for civil society to 💵

#cop27

[Dr. Yusuf Maina-Bukar, OON @YusufMBukar]

Held a strategic meeting with Tom Skirrow & Annie Shultz of @TREEAID UK, PAGGW Ambassador to AU Elvis Paul and Dr. Innocent Alenyi where we discussed areas of collaboration with @ggwnigeria. #Cop27

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

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@ICRAF Peter Minang explains what safeguards are in place in this @EvergreeningA new programme to ensure the carbon credits produced have high integrity and create benefits for communities, #biodiversity and #climate

#NaturePositive #cop27egypt #cop27

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

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The @EvergreeningA new Restore Africa programme is a testimony of the transformational potential that high quality carbon finance can have for African rural drylands communities that are at the frontline of #climate change

#NaturePositive #cop27 #cop27egypt @TREEAID

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

Great that @RiouxRemy acknowledges the leading role of civil society in building @GreenWallAfrica. Looking forward to seeing how @AFD_France will scale up its support to International & local NGOs to #walkthetalk

@IFAD #cop27egypt @TREEAID

[Annie Schultz @SchultzAnnie1]

@ibrahimthiaw says @GreenWallAfrica implementation needs to accelerate.

To do this, decentralised systems & civil society are crucial. They provide the most direct link to Sahel communities who are doing the work.

@EU_Commission, @IFAD, @UNCCD
#cop27