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Adaptation assessment

Risk assessment that evaluates adaptation options, policies, and programmes for their potential to reduce climate risk and build resilience, accounting for the multiple determinants of climate-sensitive outcomes.

Definition source: UNFCCC; IPCC AR6 WGII

Synonyms

adaptation needs assessment

Broader

Risk assessment

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Lexicon consensus

Identifier

INT_239 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_239
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_239)