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October 30, 2026

Capacity

The combination of all the strengths, attributes and resources available within an organisation, community or society to manage and reduce disaster risks and strengthen resilience (UNDRR terminology).

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October 30, 2026

Vulnerability

The conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of an individual, community, assets or systems to the impacts of hazards (UNDRR terminology).

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October 30, 2026

Exposure

The situation of people, infrastructure, housing, production capacities and other tangible human assets located in hazard-prone areas (UNDRR terminology).

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Hazard

A process, phenomenon or human activity that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation (UNDRR terminology).

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October 30, 2026

Disaster risk

The potential loss of life, injury, or destroyed or damaged assets in a system, society or community in a specific period, determined probabilistically as a function of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity (UNDRR).

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Disaster risk reduction

Aimed at preventing new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and the achievement of sustainable development (UNDRR terminology).

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October 30, 2026

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).

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October 30, 2026

IFRS S2

The ISSB’s climate-related disclosure standard, issued in June 2023 and effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2024, covering climate-related physical and transition risks and opportunities.

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October 30, 2026

Damage function

A model relationship that translates changes in climate variables, such as temperature and precipitation, into economic losses, used in scenarios such as the NGFS long-term scenarios to estimate physical risk.

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October 30, 2026

Climate scenario analysis

Assessing how an organisation or financial system would fare under a set of plausible, internally consistent climate and policy pathways; scenarios illustrate possibilities and are not forecasts (NGFS).

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