Annette contributes to development of climate change policy and GHG mitigation in the agriculture sector, including GHG accounting for emissions trading at state, national and international levels.

Annette was a lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land, and is a lead author in the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report. Since 2000 Annette has been a member of the International Energy Agency Bioenergy research network, and led the group “Climate Change Effects of Biomass and Bioenergy Systems” in the period 2013-2018. She is currently co-leader in the IEA Bioenergy group “Climate and Sustainability Effects of Bioenergy within the broader Bioeconomy”. Annette led the New Forests research program in NSW DPIRD (2001-2009), researching environmental services from planted forests, and the Applications and Outreach program in the CRC Greenhouse Accounting 2002-2004.

Annette was the Director of Rural Climate Solutions, an alliance between NSW DPIRD and the University of New England, 2009- 2014. Annette was a member of the interim Domestic Offsets Integrity Committee, assessing methodologies for the Carbon Farming Initiative 2010-2012, during the establishment of the Carbon Farming Initiative. Annette was the Land Degradation advisor on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility (2012-2018), and a member of the Science Policy Interface of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (2014-2019)