Climate risk · Cross-cutting

Compound climate risk

Climate risk that results from the combination of multiple climate hazards, drivers, or their interactions, whose joint occurrence produces consequences greater than those of the individual hazards alone.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.11: Compound events

Synonyms

compound risk, multi-hazard risk

Broader

Climate risk

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

CRK_06 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CRK_06
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CRK_06)