Climate risk · Rationale

Climate risk

Potential for adverse consequences for human or ecological systems, arising from the dynamic interaction between climate-related hazards and the exposure and vulnerability of the affected systems.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGII Glossary: Risk · reference

Synonyms

hazard exposure, climate-related risk

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

Compound climate risk

Relations

composed-of Climate hazard
composed-of Climate exposure
composed-of Climate vulnerability
composed-of Climate sensitivity
measured-by Climate risk scoring tool

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Example of use

CGIAR climate risk profiles assess exposure of agricultural value chains across crop, livestock, and fishery systems.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

CRK_01 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CRK_01
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CRK_01)