Impacts
Impacts are the positive and negative, primary and secondary long-term
effects produced by an adaptation intervention, directly or indirectly,
intended or unintended. By unintended consequence are meant the
repercussions from mitigation for adaptation and vice versa, which may
be marginal at global level, although they may be significant at the
regional level (IPCC, 2007). The impacts can be economic,
socio-cultural, institutional, environmental, technological or of other
types.