An Index of Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change

Sosso FEINDOUNO
Research Officer, FERDI
Michaël GOUJON
University Professor of Economics at the Institute of Business Administration – CERDI, Clermont Auvergne University,
Academic Coordinator of the Master’s Programme in Project Management for Development (MODEV), IHEDD–FERDI, in collaboration with AFD Campus
Patrick GUILLAUMONT
President, FERDI
Laurent WAGNER
Research officer, FERDI

The Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Index (PVCCI) measures climate shocks and the exposure of countries (National PVCCI) and their territories (Subnational PVCCI) to these shocks.

Since 2001, FERDI has been calculating and regularly updating a Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Index (PVCCI). This work has been documented in several working papers, policy briefs and published in Ecological Economics (Feindouno, Guillaumont and Simonet, 2020).

The PVCCI measures the geophysical risks faced by countries as a result of climate change. The index is structural in nature, as it relies on exogenous factors that are independent of the countries' current policies. Therefore, it can be used in the definition of the multidimensional vulnerability index.

The PVCCI is calculated for 191 countries. To highlight the heterogeneity of the physical vulnerability of territories to climate change, a disaggregated PVCCI at the sub-national level has recently been calculated (Goujon, Santoni and Wagner, 2022).

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