climate risk
Weather-driven financial threat
Climate risk refers to potential negative consequences from climate change—physical threats like floods, droughts, and extreme weather, or economic impacts from shifting regulations and markets.
The term appears frequently in finance, insurance, and corporate planning: Investors are increasingly factoring climate risk into their portfolios.
The report assessed climate risk to coastal infrastructure.
- floodingOverwhelming water accumulation
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- wildfiresUncontrolled outdoor blazes
- extreme heatSevere high temperature
- rising temperaturesIncreasing heat levels
sea level rise · extreme weather · carbon emissions · vulnerability · adaptation · resilience · exposure · heatwave · hurricane · storm surge · insurance · mitigation · net zero · Paris Agreement · greenhouse gases · carbon footprint · coastal erosion · crop failure
- agrometeorologygrowing season, evapotranspiration, frost protection, planting dates, soil moisture
- green economicsgreen economy, carbon tax, emissions trading, cap and trade, carbon credits
- disastersdisaster, earthquake, earthquakes, catastrophe, floods
- sustainabilityreduce, reuse, recycle, sustainable yield, recycling programs
- green businesssustainable business, corporate responsibility, ESG, CSR, green initiative
- ESG ReportingESG, corporate sustainability, environmental data, triple bottom line
climate riskclimate resilience
Ability to withstand environmental shifts
environmental safety · climate protection · climate adaptation · risk mitigation
climate, risk, climatic, climatology, climatological, climates, risks, risked, risking