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Anna Schulz

Head of global climate law policy and governance programme, Climate Change

Specialist in climate diplomacy, with a focus on how to support the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations.
Full biography

Anna Schulz has over ten years’ experience following the UNFCCC negotiations, first as a writer and team leader for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), and then supporting the LDC Group as a technical advisor in the transparency negotiations.

Expertise

Climate diplomacy, LDC Group, Un climate negotiations, negotiation and conflict resolution, transparency.

Before IIED

Most recently in the role of climate diplomacy specialist at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Anna served as a technical advisor to the LDC Group in the transparency negotiations. At GGGI, she also supported the development of Fiji’s long-term low emission development strategy (LTS), developed and conducted trainings for national delegations to the UNFCCC — including Myanmar and Burkina Faso, and supported the development of other climate-related programmes.

Prior to that, she served as a writer and then team leader covering the climate negotiations for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin at IISD, and as a writer for Climate-L and assignment editor for Water-L, precursors to the SDG Knowledge Hub.

Anna also taught courses in international environmental science and policy, international organisations, and global climate politics at Boston College.

Education

Ph.D. and MALD in international environmental policy and negotiation and conflict resolution, Fletcher School, Tufts University

LL.M. in international and comparative water law, from the University of Dundee, Scotland

B.A. in international relations and American politics, from Wheaton College, Massachusetts

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Email: 
anna.schulz@iied.org
Twitter: @RiverRights
Languages: English, French (intermediate), Spanish (basic)

Anna Schulz's projects

Cecilia Silva and Carla Silva Pompilio from Angola, browsing through ‘Becoming a UNFCCC delegate’, Marrakech, November 2017 (Photo: Janna Tenzing/IIED)

Building the capacity of LDCs to engage in the UNFCCC negotiations

Project, Mar 2018
This diagram illustrates how ambition for the Paris Agreement must be racheted up (Image: Clare Shakya/IIED)

Helping parliamentarians drive national climate change policy

Project, Dec 2012
Group of people talking in a circle

Providing on-demand legal, technical and strategic advice to the Least Developed Countries Group

Project, Dec 2012
People visiting a village with solar panels

Helping parliaments across the Southern African Customs Union region address climate change

Project, Dec 2012

Latest publications

Ensuring COP25 delivers increased ambition in 2020

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