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The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation

Glossary term

Compound and cascading climate risk

Climate risks that combine with each other or with non-climatic risks, or propagate through connected systems, making them more complex and difficult to manage (IPCC AR6).

Climate risks that combine with each other or with non-climatic risks, or propagate through connected systems, making them more complex and difficult to manage (IPCC AR6).

Institution GCRI