What are compound climate risks and how might they impact ...

Compound risks or complex risks refer to a combination of climate risks whose collective impact might be more severe than when they occur alone.

Focus on Compound Events - National Climate Assessment

Such interactions between multiple hazards across space or time, known as compound events, exacerbate the societal and ecosystem impacts of individual hazards ...

Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake

Research on compound climate events has made significant progress in recent years, quantifying compound relationships and risk associated with ...

Learning About Complex Climate Risks

Because climate change is projected to lead to more frequent and severe extreme weather events, its impacts could result in cascading failures ...

Compound events amplify climate risks and increase their uncertainty

Even when occurring in a single region, these exceptional events can be compounded by the heightening of multiple types of impacts simultaneously: e.g. ...

Compound Risks: Implications for Physical Climate Scenario Analysis

These complex nonlinearities can amplify the impacts of climate-related shocks and pose potential challenges for financial stability. The ...

NASA Study Reveals Compounding Climate Risks at Two Degrees ...

“The escalating impacts of all the climate extremes studied could cause significant damage to communities and economies, from fires, floods, ...

What is a compound event in weather and climate?

Compound events in climate can be very diverse. They can include fires, droughts, Storms, droughts, floods and fires can become compound events. People across ...

Compound Hazards and the Power Sector in a Changing Climate

... impacts than what would be expected from individual climate extremes (IPCC, 2021). These types of events can produce a wide range of ...

Compound climate risks in the COVID-19 pandemic - Nature

These impacts, as well as the power cuts associated with drought in southern African countries heavily dependent on hydropower, will affect ...

Enhancing community resilience amid compound, cascading ...

Compound shocks occur when multiple risks, such as extreme weather events, economic disruptions, or pandemics, coincide or interact, amplifying their ...

Compounding Climate and Social Hazards Result in Different ...

When droughts become sustained, additional climate disasters hit, and/or existing social vulnerabilities exacerbate the impacts of drought – ...

Guest post: How to assess the multiple interacting risks of climate ...

Compound climate risks are those where two or more climate risk drivers affect each other to increase the overall severity of risk. For example, ...

Climate Risk | EcoAct

14 Apr 2023. What are compound climate risks and how might they impact companies? Compound climate risk is an increasingly ...

Introduction to the special issue: Compound weather and climate ...

Indeed, most climate-related impacts are caused by compound events. Therefore, better understanding their occurrence, quantifying key characteristics, analyzing ...

Increasing Risks of Future Compound Climate Extremes With ...

Compound climate extremes (here referred to compound dry–hot events and compound pluvial–hot events) result in devastating disasters which ...

What is climate risk and what does it mean for your organization

Climate shocks and stresses can occur at the same time and impact each other, creating compound risks and cascading failures. For example ...

Future climate risk from compound events | VU Research Portal

In combination, these hazards caused devastating impacts in many areas, at a scale well beyond that which any one of these hazards would have caused in ...

Lesson 1：Compound and cascading disaster risks. What are they?

Climate change will lead to more severe weather-related hazards, so there is now an urgent need to deal with compound and cascading disaster ...

Special issue – Understanding compound weather and climate ...

Compound weather and climate events refer to combinations of multiple weather and climate drivers and/or hazards that lead to potentially large impacts.