Moritz Kraemer is an international economist and expert in credit analysis and economic policy. Moritz is Chief Economist at CreditRisk.io and a Senior Fellow at SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance. Until 2018 Moritz was Global Chief Ratings Officer for Sovereigns at S&P Global Ratings. Before joining S&P in 2001 Moritz worked as an Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. Moritz holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Göttingen (Germany). He studied Economics, Latin American Studies and Literature in Frankfurt, Southampton and San Diego. He teaches graduate courses at Goethe-University Frankfurt and the Centre International de Formation Européene (Nice).
Enthusiasm for ‘greening the financial system’ is welcome, but does the explosion of ‘green’ finance indicators reflect the science? This column reports research that uses artificial intelligence to construct the world’s first ‘climate smart’ sovereign credit rating. The results warn of climate-driven downgrades as early as 2030.