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.