Biography

Moritz is an Associate with the Climate Econometrics project at Nuffield College and the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment.

His research, under the supervision of Prof Cameron Hepburn and Prof Sir David Hendry, focused on the macro-econometric estimation of climate impacts. Further research interests include spatial econometrics and remote-sensing.

Moritz holds a degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MSc from Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute. Before continuing his studies at Oxford, he worked for the Austrian government and coordinated the activities in international environmental negotiations associated with Austria’s Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2018 (with a focus on climate, biodiversity, whaling and governance negotiations). He is currently undertaking the Einstein International Postdoctoral Fellowship at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Technical University Berlin.

Recent Publications

Aug 2024
Journal
Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades
in Science
Annika Stechemesser ,  Nicolas Koch ,  Ebba Mark ,  Elina Dilger ,  Patrick Klösel ,  Laura Menicacci ,  Daniel Nachtigall ,  Nolan Ritter ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Helena Vossen ,  Anna Wenzel
Feb 2024
Journal
Jan 2024
Journal
Whose jobs face transition risk in Alberta? Understanding sectoral employment precarity in an oil-rich Canadian province
in Climate Policy
Antonina Scheer ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Debbie Hopkins ,  Ben Caldecott
Mar 2023
Journal
Large weather and conflict effects on internal discplacement in Somalia with little evidence of feedback onto conflict
in Global Environmental Change
Lisa Thalheimer ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Felix Pretis
Sept 2022
Journal
Attributing agnostically detected large reductions in road CO2 emissions to policy mixes
in Nature Energy
Nicolas Koch ,  Lennard Naumann ,  Felix Pretis ,  Nolan Ritter ,  Moritz Schwarz
May 2022
Journal
Decarbonization in state-owned power companies: Lessons from a comparative analysis
in Journal of Cleaner Production
Philippe Benoit ,  Alex Clark ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Arjuna Dibley
Dec 2020
Report
Climate change and Emerging Markets after Covid-19
François Cohen ,  Matthew Ives ,  Sugandha Srivastav ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Paolo De Souza ,  Yangsiyu Lu ,  Penny Mealy ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Luke Jackson
Aug 2020
Journal
The Challenge of Using Epidemiological Case Count Data: The Example of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and the Weather
in Environmental and Resource Economics
François Cohen ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Yangsiyu Lu ,  Anant Jani ,  Sihan Li
Apr 2018
Journal
Uncertain impacts on economic growth when stabilizing global temperatures at 1.5°C or 2°C warming
in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
Felix Pretis ,  Kevin Tang ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Karsten Haustein ,  Myles R. Allen
Oct 2017
Paper

Recent Events

24 Sept 24
16:00

Cutting Emissions – what policies work?

Special panel discussion with Chris Stark

Online Event
Chris Stark 2 credit Anna Moffat

Programme Teams