Climate risk · Rationale

Health risk

Potential for adverse health consequences - disease, injury, malnutrition or death - in human populations, treated as climate-related when attributable to climate hazards or climate-sensitive transmission pathways.

Definition source: WHO (environmental health risks); IPCC AR6 WGII Ch.7

Synonyms

none

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Climate risk counts as adaptation when the text attributes it to climate change, climate variability, or a named climate hazard (for example climate-induced, climate-driven, exacerbated by warming, or due to changing rainfall), OR when it is the stated target of an adaptation-specific intervention, climate service, or early-warning action; NOT adaptation when it is described as a routine pest, sanitary, food-safety, land-management, or general social or economic problem with no climate framing.

Provenance

Restructure (v5)

Identifier

CRK_168 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CRK_168
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CRK_168)