Barbara Buchner

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Barbara Buchner
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At the FT Climate Finance Summit in London, May 2017
Born17 May 1974 [1]
Austria
CitizenshipAustrian
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Scientific career
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Institutions Climate Policy Initiative
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Nuvola apps arts.svg Ep4: Barbara Buchner 'Counting the Climate Cash, Cleaning Up, August 12, 2020.
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Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Barbara Buchner - Global Managing Director & Executive Director, Climate Policy Initiative, Local Finance Knowledge Hub, March 30, 2021

Barbara K. Buchner is an Austrian economist, with a doctorate in economics from the University of Graz. She specializes in climate finance, and is the global managing director and the executive director for the climate finance division of the Climate Policy Initiative. [2] In 2014, the International Council for Science listed her on its Road to Paris website among twenty women influential in climate change. [3] [4]

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Education

Buchner grew up in Austria. [3] She earned a Masters Degree in Economics in 1999 from the Economics/Environmental Sciences Joint Program [5] run by the University of Graz and Graz University of Technology. [6] She completed a PhD degree in Economics at the University of Graz [7] in 2003 with the dissertation Incentives in the Transition to Sustainable Structures: The Case of Climate Change Control. [8]

Career

From 2003-2006, Buchner worked on climate change and policy modelling as a Senior Researcher with the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). [9] She was also a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [10] in fall 2006. [1] In 2007, [1] Buchner joined the International Energy Agency (IEA) where she served as a Senior Energy and Environmental Analyst. [11] [9]

In 2010 Buchner was appointed as the director of the Climate Policy Initiative's newly opened third office, based in Venice, Italy in the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). [11] In 2011, she helped to establish the San Giorgio Group, [12] a working group drawing on CPI, the World Bank Group, China Light & Power, and the OECD. The San Giorgio Group focuses on ways in which financing can support green low-emissions investment. [13] In 2016 she became the executive director for the CPI's climate finance division. [12]

Climate finance is considered central to the achievement of a low-carbon, climate resilient future. [14] Through her work, Buchner has helped to establish a framework for tracking climate-relevant financial flows from a variety of sources, including both public and private flows. [15] [16] [17] [10] Among other works, Buchner has been a lead author of a series of yearly CPI reports including Global Landscape of Climate Finance (2013), which credited with setting the benchmark of climate finance tracking. She is credited with a "key part" in writing Climate Finance in 2013-14 and the USD 100 billion goal (2015), a joint report of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), [18] which was influential in preparations for the Paris Agreement. [19] [2]

In 2020, Buchner was appointed as the global managing director of the Climate Policy Initiative. [2] Buchner directs CPI's Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, [9] [20] which was created in 2014 [3] and has sister programs in Brazil and India. [9] [20] In 2021, Buchner was appointed a Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London [21] .

Publications

Buchner has published articles in journals and in books. Her publications include:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dr. Barbara K. Buchner" (PDF). Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Dávila, Elysha (January 27, 2020). "CPI appoints Dr. Barbara Buchner as Global Managing Director, Vikram Widge as Senior Advisor". CPI. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 Garrigou, Anne-Sophie (27 October 2016). "Climate finance: definition, hopes and main barriers with Barbara Buchner". The Beam Magazine. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "20 women making waves in the climate change debate". Road to Paris - ICSU. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  5. ↑ "European Graduates". Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  6. ↑ "Environmental System Sciences / Climate Change and Environmental Technology (ESS/CCET) - University of Graz". www.uni-graz.at. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  7. ↑ "Mainstreaming Mobilization : Paris 2017" (PDF). Mainstreaming Climate. 2017. p. 10.
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  9. 1 2 3 4 "Ms. Barbara Buchner". United Nations | Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  10. 1 2 Herculano, Gabriela (March 31, 2021). "Interview with Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director of Climate Policy Initiative". www.iclima.earth. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  11. 1 2 "Climate Policy Initiative Opens Third Office at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in Venice". Climate Policy Initiative. April 16, 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  12. 1 2 "CPI names Dr. Barbara Buchner and David Nelson Executive Directors of climate finance and energy finance programs". Climate Policy Initiative. April 4, 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  13. ↑ "San Giorgio Group Meets on Increasing Funding for Low-Emissions Development". World Bank. September 20, 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  14. ↑ Watson, Charlene; Schalatek, Liane. "The Global Climate Finance Architecture" (PDF). Climate Finance Fundamentals ldate=2021. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  15. ↑ Markandya, Anil; Galarraga, Ibon; Rübbelke, Dirk (5 January 2017). Climate Finance: Theory And Practice. World Scientific. ISBN   978-981-4641-82-1 . Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  16. ↑ Boyle, Jessica (2013). "IISD REPORT NOVEMBER 2013 Exploring Trends in Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Development" (PDF). The International Institute for Sustainable Development. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  17. ↑ Illman, Julia (2014). Practical methods for assessing private climate finance flows (PDF). Nordic Council Of Ministers. p. 23. ISBN   978-92-893-2704-6 . Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  18. ↑ OECD-CPI (2015). Climate finance in 2013-14 and the USD 100 billion goal : a report by the OECD in collaboration with Climate Policy Initiative. OECD. ISBN   9789264249424.
  19. ↑ Wilson, Steve (May 2, 2016). "Financial Innovation in Climate Resilience at Proadapt Conference | BID LAB". IDB/LAB. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  20. 1 2 "Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance Launches New Program to Increase Impact Through Replication". The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance. May 10, 2021. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  21. ↑ "Appointment of Barbara Buchner as Professor in Practice at the Centre for Sustainable Finance | SOAS". www.soas.ac.uk. 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
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