Dr. Luke Haywood

Dr. Luke Haywood

Dr. Luke Haywood is a researcher in the working group Sustainable Resource Management and Global Change at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). His main research interests are empirical analyses of the labour market, public economics and transport.

Luke is currently lead researcher of the project Economic Consequences of Coal Exit analyzing the welfare effects for workers of transiting to a post-fossil economy. Before joining MCC, Luke was postdoc in the public economics department at DIW Berlin for five years and labour economist at the OECD for one year.  He received his PhD at the Paris School of Economics after studying economics at Oxford (BA, M.Phil). 

Web tools and Projects we developed

  • Open-NEM

    The live tracker of the Australian electricity market.

  • Paris Equity Check

    This website is based on a Nature Climate Change study that compares Nationally Determined Contributions with equitable national emissions trajectories in line with the five categories of equity outlined by the IPCC.

  • liveMAGICC Climate Model

    Run one of the most popular reduced-complexity climate carbon cycle models online. Used by IPCC, UNEP GAP reports and numerous scientific publications.

  • NDC & INDC Factsheets

    Check out our analysis of all the post-2020 targets that countries announced under the Paris Agreement.