Climate risk · Cross-cutting

Climate stressor

Climate hazard with a chronic temporal profile, taking the form of a slow-onset or progressive pressure or trend, such as warming, shifting rainfall seasonality, or salinization, that gradually erodes a system, as distinct from an acute shock.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGII Glossary (Slow onset events); resilience literature

Synonyms

slow-onset stressor, chronic climate stress, climate stress, under climate stress

Broader

Climate hazard

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

CRK_10 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CRK_10
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CRK_10)