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Barbara Buchner

Global Managing
Director, Climate Policy
Initiative

Dr. Barbara Buchner is Global Managing Director of Climate Policy Initiative, and Executive Director of its widely renowned Climate Finance program. Named one of the 20 most influential women in climate change, Barbara advises leaders on climate, energy, and land use investments around the world.


Barbara directs the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, (the Lab) and its sister programs in Brazil and India. The Lab’s public-private approach solicits, shapes, and tests cutting edge climate finance instruments that resolve financing barriers hindering alternative energy, adaptation, and land use projects. Instruments from the Lab have mobilized over 2.3 billion US dollars for sustainable development in developing countries in six years. She is also the lead author on CPI’s Global Landscape of Climate Finance which has set the benchmark for climate finance tracking.


She is on the Advisory Board of the BCFN Foundation, a member of the Finance Sector Expert Group for the UNFCCC’s Race to Zero and Race to Resilience, and a member of the One Planet Lab.

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