[2] In 2014, the International Council for Science listed her on its Road to Paris website among twenty women influential in climate change.

[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] From 2003-2006, Buchner worked on climate change and policy modelling as a Senior Researcher with the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).

[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).

[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.