Climatic impact-driver (Q428)

Subject, term, tag: Climatic impact-driver

Climatic impact-driver (CID)

Language	Label	Description	Also known as
English	Climatic impact-driver	Subject, term, tag: Climatic impact-driver	Climatic impact-driver (CID)

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source version

IPCC Glossary v1.5

1 reference

Source

https://apps.ipcc.ch/glossary/

date accessed

27 May 2026

Part of

Working Group I: Climate Change 2021 – The Physical Science Basis

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Definition

Physical climate system conditions (e.g., means, events, extremes) that affect an element of society or ecosystems. Depending on system tolerance, CIDs and their changes can be detrimental, beneficial, neutral or a mixture of each across interacting system elements and regions. (English)