Alexandra Buylova is a research fellow at the Global Politics and Security Programme at UI.
Alexandra joined Swedish Institute of International Affairs in July 2022 after completing her postdoc at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on climate governance and politics: national level decarbonization strategies and policies, city-level climate governance, and the role of the UNFCCC in climate cooperation. She is a part of a Swedish Energy Agency project on sustainable energy transformation in cities and the EU Cities Mission. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from Oregon State University (2018).
Areas of Expertise
Climate governance and politics, climate and energy policy
Publications
Buylova, A., Reischl, G., Wolters, M. (2024) Diversifying climate policy advice: Research agenda on the expertise of national climate councils. Earth System Governance, Volume 22. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811624000260?via=ihub
Buylova, A., Nasiritousi, N., Duit, A., Reischl, G., & Lejon, P. (2024). Paper tiger or useful governance tool? Understanding long-term climate strategies as a climate governance instrument. Environmental Science & Policy. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146290112400145X
Buylova, A., & Nasiritousi, N. (2024). CBAM: Bending the Carbon Curve Or Breaking International Trade? Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS). https://www.sieps.se/globalassets/publikationer/2024/2024_9epa.pdf
Nasiritousi, N., Buylova, A., Fridahl, M., & Reischl, G. (2024). Making the UNFCCC fit for purpose: A research agenda on vested interests and green spiralling. Global Policy. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1758-5899.13356
Buylova, A., Fridahl, M., Nasiritousi, N. et al. Climate action in the making: business and civil society views on the world’s first carbon border levy. Clim Action 1, 17 (2022). https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-022-00015-4
Buylova, A., Fridahl, M., Nasiritousi, N., and Reischl, G. (2021). “Cancel (out) emissions? The envisaged role of carbon dioxide removal technologies within long-term national climate strategies”. Frontiers Climate. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2021.675499/full