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title: Compound Climate Event
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## Definition

**Compound Climate Event** means simultaneous or successive weather or climate events, extreme or not, with severe environmental, economic or social consequences \[that occur over \[a short time OR \[●\] years\]\].

**Compound Climate Event** means the combination of two or more, not necessarily extreme, weather or climate events that occur:

1. at the same time in the same region;
2. in close temporal succession in the same region; or
3. concurrently in different regions,

and that lead to extreme societal, economic or environmental impacts.