The phrase 'counter the impact' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize the idea of taking action to lessen or reduce the effect of something. For example, "We need to quickly come up with a plan to counter the impact of the new tax law."
Cocker said the payments were vital to counter the impact of turbulent market conditions.
Adventure playgrounds are not subsidised visitor attractions, but valued community assets that counter the impact of urban poverty on families.
Labour seemed strangely unprepared to counter the impact of Iraq when the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives raised it.
Protestants for the Common Good, formed in 1995 to counter the impact of the religious right, has an overtly leftish agenda.
Boeing must be hoping for a boom from the event in launch orders for its new 777 to counter the impact of the shocking Japanese decision this week.
The taskforce found the Hunter region would have to create about 10,000 jobs to counter the impact of both the immediate loss of jobs at the steelworks as well as associated jobs that would suffer.
Full recovery from one serious anthropogenic impact on marine ecosystems, namely the dramatic depletion of whale populations, can help to counter the impacts of another now underway the decline in nutrients for phytoplankton growth caused by ocean warming.
An improved seed collection service was introduced in 1923 to counter the impacts of poor, and inconsistent, tree-form characteristics.
However, on the west coast of Canada, competition for resources is hypothesized to be largely driven by the massive explosion of even year Pink Salmon populations (Ruggerone et al. 2003); hence, unless Pink Salmon were to also be affected, densities may not be reduced to sufficiently low levels to counter the impacts of disease.
They countered the impact of high prices by devaluing their currencies.
Some C3 species may have adapted to higher temperatures via increased levels of RubisCO, thus countering the impact of reduced RubisCO carboxylation63.
