Indicator of physical vulnerability to climate change
The Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Indicator (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 updating an indicator of physical vulnerability to climate change (PVCCI). This work was the subject of several working papers, brief ones before being published in Ecological Economics (Feindouno, Guillaumont and Simonet, 2020).\ \ The PVCCI measures the geophysical risks faced by countries due to climate change. It is a structural index because it is based on exogenous factors that are independent of countries' current and future policies. It is therefore intended to be used in the definition of the multidimensional vulnerability index.\ \ The index is constructed for 191 countries, and with the aim of highlighting the heterogeneity of territories’ physical vulnerability to climate change, a disaggregated subnational PVCCI has recently been calculated (Goujon, Santoni and Wagner, 2022).
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- Metadata completenessweight 20%46/100
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- License clarityweight 15%100/100
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- First published
- 2026-06-01
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- Category: open_data
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data-indicator-of-vulnerability-physical-to-change-climatic.xlsx
https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/450248e4-af7e-49fa-be8b-3e10e75cd933