Carboun Institute · Systems-Level Assessment · Draft 3

The interconnected risks of climate change in MENA

47 causal links between 20 climate risk factors — showing why no single intervention point resolves the crisis. Node size reflects the number of connections; the most connected nodes are the system's deepest leverage points.

20 risk factors · 47 causal links · 5 domains · physics-based layout

Drag any node to explore. Hover for the underlying data from the report.

Physical
Water & food
Energy
Economic
Political
Node size = connection count

This map pairs with the cascade diagram. Where the cascade explains the logic of how physical stressors become political consequences, this diagram shows the density — every node connects to multiple others across domain boundaries. The system has no clean entry point.