The Climate Pulse

Climate and Clean Air Action In Plain English

The Climate Pulse Is Beating Fast

The UNEP Hidden Assets - 189 page assessment gives the clearest picture so far of the benefits and costs of tackling climate change and air pollution together. It also looks at practical ways to deliver these benefits quickly enough to prevent deaths and illness, while improving the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

Wouldn’t it be great to read and understand these in layman’s terms? Well, now you can, Hidden Assets solutions made simple.

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169to1® The Climate Pulse

25 Solutions. One Integrated Case.

A plain-English reading of UNEP's Hidden Assets assessment. Every measure that cuts emissions and cleans the air - sorted by sector, by what it primarily fixes, and by the returns it delivers. We have taken the UNEP 189-page report, and made it something you can view on one page.

Source: UNEP / Climate & Clean Air Coalition, Hidden Assets (2026). Figures read from the report's tables and charts.

Return on every $1 invested

Market benefits only · benefit-cost ratio

$15Full return per $1
60%Rate of return
2.8%of GDP by 2035
1.4°CWarming avoided by 2100
Sector
What it primarily fixes
What the colours mean · the report's three objectives
Long-term Climate - deep CO₂ cuts. The 4 measures that bend the century-long curve.
Clean Air - cuts the pollutants that harm health now.
Near-term Climate - super-pollutants like methane that slow warming fast.

All 25 solutions

The Climate Pulse is a 169to1 reader's aid: an independent, plain-English guide to a UNEP publication. It is a guide to the report, not a substitute for it, and it does not reproduce it. It is not legal, policy or investment advice.

Read the full report: Hidden Assets: The economic and health case for climate and clean air action (United Nations Environment Programme / Climate and Clean Air Coalition, Nairobi, 2026). ISBN 978-92-807-4302-9. Job number DTI/2784/NA. DOI 10.59117/20.500.11822/49870.

Suggested citation. United Nations Environment Programme (2026). Hidden Assets: The economic and health case for climate and clean air action. Climate and Clean Air Coalition. Nairobi.

Source and terms. This work is based on Hidden Assets, © 2026 United Nations Environment Programme. The report may be reproduced in whole or in part for educational or non-profit purposes without special permission, provided the source is acknowledged; it may not be used for resale or any other commercial purpose without prior written permission from UNEP. This reader's aid is such a non-commercial adaptation. The solution classification follows Table ES2; the returns curve is Figure 3.36 (market-only benefit-cost ratio); regional priority order and benefit-cost ratios are read from Figure 3.37 and Table 3.2; group-level payback follows Section 3.4, the level at which the report publishes per-solution figures. The SDG target mapping is 169to1's own indicative reading, not part of the report and not a UNEP crosswalk. The plain-English wording and framing are 169to1's; the economics, solutions and findings are UNEP's. The views expressed here are the sole responsibility of 169to1 and are not endorsed by UNEP. 169to1 is independent and has no UN affiliation. Content reviewed 10 September 2026.

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