Arnaud C. Koehl

Summary

Arnaud is a PhD researcher based at the Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, and notably interacts with the Grantham Institute. He joined Imperial after his MSc in Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment at University College London. Arnaud also holds an MA in International Relations and a Diploma in Latin American Studies from the Lyon Institute of Political Studies.

Arnaud has work experience from the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (USA), Janaagraha Centre for Democracy and Citizenship (India) and the French Department for Energy and Climate. He previously worked for two years as an operations analyst at KiWi Power, the UK’s leading demand response aggregator. In parallel to his PhD, Arnaud works on the Climate Change Laws of the World database, hosted by the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics. He advises the governments of Georgia and Mongolia on their climate legislation as an international expert on behalf of GIZ.

Research

Arnaud is interested in finding comprehensive pathways for open systems such as transport matrices, energy markets and material flows by interrelating different sustainable development goals while framing them in accordance to the Paris Agreement on climate change.

His PhD focuses on health and economic co-benefits of interventions to reduce transport related GHG emissions in populous middle income countries. He aims in particular at quantifying the effects on daily physical activity and exposure to air pollution of greener transport matrices according to urbanisation types, especially in Brazil, India and China.

Selected publications

• Jain-Grégoire P et al. 2022, Building EU-India synergy: allying sustainable modernisation and strategic autonomy. Report no 101. IRSEM/DGAP/ORF/Asia Centre - Open access link
• Higham C and Koehl, A. 2022, How can climate policy better address climate-driven population displacement? Grantham Research Institute at LSE - Open access link
• Chan, T. et al. 2022. From COP26 to COP27: four climate laws passed in the Commonwealth. The Parliamentarian, vol 103, issue four - Open access link
• Koehl, A. 2022. How important is hydrogen to climate action and what are countries doing about it? Grantham Research Institute at LSE - Open access link
• Koehl, A. 2022. What is climate change legislation? Grantham Research Institute at LSE - Open access link
• Higham C et al. 2021, Accountability mechanisms in climate change framework laws. Grantham Research Institute at LSE - Open access link
• Higham C, Koehl, A. 2021. Domestic limits to fossil fuel production and expansion in the G20. Grantham Research Institute at LSE - link to commentary
• Koehl, A. 2020. Urban transport and COVID-19: challenges and prospects in low and middle-income countries. Cities & Health - Open access link
• Koehl, A. 2019. Combining climate, health and economic objectives in the transport systems of populous middle-income countries. Global Relations Forum -  Publisher web link
• Koehl, A. 2020. Shaping the recovery from the Covid-19-induced worldwide crisis to build up resilience, maximise decarbonisation and transform urban transport. Global Relations Forum -   Publisher web link

Selected contributions

• Setzer, J. and Byrnes, R. 2020. Global trends in climate change litigation: 2020 snapshot. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. Full text (PDF)
• Nachmany, M. and Mangan, E. 2018. Aligning national and international climate targets. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. Full text (PDF)
• Nachmany, M. and Setzer, J. 2018. Global trends in climate change legislation and litigation: 2018 snapshot. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. Full text (PDF) ; Annex of graphs (PDF)

Publications

Journals