While quantitative analysis is typically the dominant approach in economic analysis for climate action, this narrows perception and analysis to topics and issues that are easily quantifiable and for which reliable data is available.
This leaves out many vitally important influences and effects of climate action, such as political pushback and trust, and informal economic sectors, which are complex and dynamic and therefore difficult to model or consider intuitively. In this context, non-quantitative methods can help assess how systems work, including feedback effects, relationships, trade-offs, and synergies, though it is crucial that outputs are directly usable for such methods to be useful.