Climate risk · Rationale

Cascading hazard

Climate hazard characterised by a chain of events in which an initial hazard triggers one or more secondary hazards or impacts, propagating across systems and sectors to amplify overall consequences.

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

Synonyms

Cascading climate impact, cascading impacts

Broader

Climate hazard

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert; Restructure (v5)

Identifier

CRK_160 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CRK_160
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CRK_160)