Dr Francois Cohen

Associate

Associate Professor (professor agregat), Department of Economics and Chair of Energy Sustainability of the University of Barcelona, Spain

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Biography

Francois Cohen is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. Francois is also Associate Professor (professor agregat) at the Department of Economics and Chair of Energy Sustainability of the University of Barcelona, Spain. He is also part of the Future of Cooling Programme of the Oxford Martin School. Francois is primarily interested in policies to mitigate climate change and the socioeconomic impacts of climate change.

Recent Publications:

Cohen, F. & Dechezlepretre, A. (2022) "Mortality, Temperature and Public Health Provision: Evidence from Mexico". American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14(2): 161-92.

Lu, Y., Cohen, F., Smith, S.M. et al. "Plant conversions and abatement technologies cannot prevent stranding of power plant assets in 2 °C scenarios". Nat Commun 13, 806 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28458-7

Cohen, F. & Valacchi, G. (2022) "The heterogeneous impact of coal prices on the location of cleaner and dirtier steel plants", The Energy Journal, Vol. 43, No. 2.

Austin, W., Cohen, F., Coomes, D., Hanley, N., Lewis, S., Luque-Lora, R., Marchant, R., Naylor, L., Queirós, A. M., Savaresi, A., Seddon, N., Smith, A., Smith, P. and Wheeler, C. (2021) Nature-based solutions for climate change, people and biodiversity. COP26 Universities Network Briefing.

Cohen, F., Ives, M., Srivastav, S., Schwarz, M., Lu, Y., Mealy, P., Bento Maffei de Souza, P., Jackson, L. & Hepburn, C. (2020) Climate change and Emerging Markets after Covid-19, a report prepared for Pictet Asset Management in partnership with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. pp. 1-154.

Recent Publications