[#dataviz] Climate change: the new geography of economic losses

Nicolas Schneider , EDHEC Climate Institute Senior Research Engineer - Macroeconomist

Climate change has a major impact on global economy, but the average figures don't tell the whole story. In this new dataviz, discover the research by Nicolas Schneider, Senior Research Engineer – Macroeconomist at EDHEC Climate Institute, on the impacts at national and subnational levels. This also includes an overview of the sovereign ratings available to professionals developed by Scientific Climate Ratings (an EDHEC Venture).

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21 Oct 2026

By 2100, according to the IMF, the losses in GDP per capita could range from -1 per cent (Paris Agreement Scenario) to -24 per cent (Very high-emissions Scenario).

However, climate change precise cost and its distribution - across time and across space - remain uncertain, and averages hide very different situations. Researchers measured how 191 countries’ growth reacted to climate variations over four decades, then used that to project local damages under different climate scenarios to 2035 or 2050, producing a ranking of “winners” and “losers.”

Discover these results in a new dataviz featuring:
- the research by Nicolas Schneider, Senior Research Engineer – Macroeconomist at EDHEC Climate Institute
- an overview of the Sovereign ratings available to professionals developed by Scientific Climate Ratings (an EDHEC Venture)