# Luc Feyen Back to [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/People/People|Lomborg People]] · [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/BjornLomborg-x-profile|@BjornLomborg]] · Topic: [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate|Climate Change Science and Policy Debate]] **Role:** Researcher at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC); co-author of a global study of declining vulnerability to climate hazards - Co-author with Giuseppe Formetta of [Empirical evidence of declining global vulnerability to climate-related hazards](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378019300378) (*Global Environmental Change*, 2019; open access via [PMC](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6686205/)). - Key findings: across seven hazards (floods, flash floods, coastal floods, cold, heatwaves, droughts, wind), using Munich Re NatCatSERVICE data for 1980-2016, global mortality rates fell about 6.5x and economic-loss rates (losses ÷ exposed GDP) nearly 5x from 1980-89 to 2007-16, with poorer countries converging toward richer ones but a gap remaining. - Lomborg's Feb 4, 2026 post repeats this study's hazard list as if it described a 1990-2025 chart; see the [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - BjornLomborg on Global Weather Losses as a Share of GDP 1990-2025 (2026-02-04)|weather-losses analysis]]. - Affiliation per the JRC press summary ([CMINE](https://www.cmine.eu/news/214194)).