Impact · Impact

Loss avoided

Higher-order, long-term impact in which agricultural, economic, or welfare losses attributable to climate hazards are reduced as a result of an adaptation intervention, assessed against a credible counterfactual baseline without the intervention.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGII (avoided impacts / losses); UNFCCC WIM (loss and damage) · reference

Synonyms

avoided damages, reduced loss, welfare protection

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

Agronomic loss avoided, Welfare loss avoided

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Example of use

Stress-tolerant maize, flood-tolerant rice, climate services, and IBLI generate evidence of climate-related losses avoided.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

IMP_001 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/IMP_001
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/IMP_001)