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Welfare loss avoided

Loss avoided in household or community welfare under climate stress, compared with a no-adaptation baseline, including avoided reductions in income, food security, assets, labour capacity, or coping ability.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGII (avoided welfare losses)

Synonyms

avoided welfare loss

Broader

Loss avoided

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

IMP_003 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/IMP_003
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/IMP_003)