AIAO forms part of the **core infrastructure for web3 climate solutions** and is especially relevant for **carbon accounting** as it provides the ontology that can give rise to mutually interpretable data models and systems.

Impact accounting is a key component in climate change mitigation and adaptation.  There are, and in all probability will always be, diverse systems, methods and platforms on which and by which impact accounting is done.  This diversity brings about the problem of comparability.  Semantic web standards provide the technical means to solve this problem. We created AIAO as a fundamental ontology for anthropogenic impact accounting in general. This means that it can be used to create data models and systems for comparing impact accounting data across different standards and vocabularies. This has the great advantage that we can account for *climate change mitigation* and *climate change adaptation* in a similar way. 

AIAO can underly large graph- or semantic impact databases. Climate impact is the most obvious application for such an undertaking, but other anthropogenic impacts, such as water and biodiversity impacts, can also be accounted for. 