Climate risk · Rationale

Compound hazard

Climate hazard arising from the combination of multiple drivers and/or hazards that contribute to societal or environmental risk, whether occurring simultaneously, in sequence, or compounding over time.

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

Synonyms

Compound climate event

Broader

Climate hazard

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

CRK_151 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CRK_151
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CRK_151)