Five Dimensions of Impact | Impact Frontiers

<aside> <img src="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" alt="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" width="40px" /> The Five Dimensions of Impact are given by Impact Frontiers.

It is today a widely recognized and open-source framework for assessing the positive impact of investments. This framework can be applied to A&R solutions.

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What ?

This dimension of adaptation and resilience impact focuses on the outcomes an investment contributes to and their significance to stakeholders, highlighting the expected benefits.

Key determinants of physical climate risk include:

• hazards (potentially harmful climate events)
• exposure (the presence of vulnerable people, systems, or assets)
• vulnerability (the likelihood of being adversely affected).

There are two types of investments offer adaptation and resilience benefits:

1. Enabling investments make others (people, businesses, nature, assets) more climate-resilient by providing solutions like technologies or services
2. Adapted investments are themselves made climate-resilient but don’t necessarily extend that resilience to others

For example, an enabling investment might fund climate-resilient crop research, improving sector-wide resilience. An adapted investment could be a flood-resistant road, enhancing the area's overall resilience. Some investments can have both enabling and adapted characteristics.