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Physical Climate Risks

including a list of climate related hazards specified by the EU Taxonomy

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Written by Rutger
Updated over 2 years ago

Definition

"You identified the physical climate risks that are material to the activity from those listed in the list below by performing a robust climate risk and vulnerability assessment with the following steps:

(a) screening of the activity to identify which physical climate risks from the list may affect the performance of the economic activity during its expected lifetime;

(b) where the activity is assessed to be at risk from one or more of the physical climate risks in the list, a climate risk and vulnerability assessment to assess the materiality of the physical climate risks on the economic activity;

(c) an assessment of adaptation solutions that can reduce the identified physical climate risk."

List of climate related hazards

Temperature related 🌡️

  1. Temperature change

  2. Heat stress

  3. Temperature variability

  4. Permafrost thawing

  5. Heat wave

  6. Cold wave/frost

  7. Wildfire

Wind related 💨

  1. Changing wind patterns

  2. Cyclones

  3. Storms

  4. Tornado

Water related 💧

  1. Changing precipitation

  2. Precipitation or hydro­logical variability

  3. Ocean acidification

  4. Saline intrusion

  5. Sea level rise

  6. Water stress

  7. Drought

  8. Heavy precipitation

  9. Flood

  10. Glacial lake outburst

Solid mass related 🪨

  1. Coastal erosion

  2. Soil degradation

  3. Soil erosion

  4. Solifluction

  5. Avalanche

  6. Landslide

  7. Subsidence

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