Juan Moreno Cruz

Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair | Enterprise and Development, Faculty of Environment

Juan Moreno-Cruz is an Associate Professor at the School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development at the University of Waterloo.  He is also a CESifo Research Affiliate. Prior to his current position, Moreno-Cruz was an Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2011-2017). Professor Moreno-Cruz's research focuses on the interaction of energy systems, technological change, and climate policy. His most influential work examines how solar and carbon geoengineering technologies affect climate policy. His most recent work provides novel insights into the process of energy transitions by demonstrating how energy access shapes the organization of the economy in cities and how energy consumption in cities in turn pollutes the local and global environment. 

Selected Publications:

• Energy Efficiency in General Equilibrium with Input-Output Linkages (2021) with Christopher Blackburn,  forthcoming Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
• Optimal Climate Policy in 3D: Mitigation, Carbon Removal and Solar Geoengineering (2021) with Mariia Belaia and David Keith, Climate Change Economics, 2150008
• Balancing climate and development goals (2020) with Lei Duan and Ken Caldeira, Environmental Research Letters, vol 15, 124057