Improving transport connectivity in Asia in a strategic and well-planned way will enable the continent’s sub-regions to reverse the trend of rising transport emissions while advancing economic development.
This is the core message of a series of three special issues of the ITF Transport Outlook covering Southeast Asia, South and Southwest Asia and North and Central Asia. The reports are a collaboration between the International Transport Forum (ITF) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
Modelling potential transport connectivity improvements for Asia’s three sub-regions reveals tremendous potential for decarbonising transport. Despite rapidly growing transport demand, transport CO2 emissions could be cut drastically with the right policies:
- Carbon emissions from non-urban freight could halve in all three sub-regions by 2050 compared to 2015;
- Passenger travel in the sub-regions could see its CO2 emissions drop by 15% over the same…
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