Impact Trust • Working glossary
Strategic climate risk
Climate risk understood not just as direct physical impacts but as a strategic threat to institutions, economies, and societies – including cascading, compounding, and systemic consequences that can overwhelm response capacity.
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Our Take
The 'strategic' prefix signals institutional survival and societal stability, not weather forecasts. Elevates climate from an environmental issue to a strategic challenge - the core argument for why National Societies need to engage with polycrisis thinking.
Examples of Use
SCRI
Synonyms/Variants
Systemic Climate RIsk
Typical everyday wording
Climate change as a threat to whole institutions and societies
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