Heading into COP30, Asia's transport story is one of two truths: progress and persistence. Growth in emissions is easing, efficiency is up, and e-mobility is advancing. Decoupling—long deemed improbable—is starting to appear. It’s a sign that smart policy and technology can shift the trajectory.
Please read The Two Faces of Progress: Decarbonizing Asia's Transport Sector for the full story. In addition, you can use the tools below which provide visual queues relating to the trajectories and progress of the different economies in terms of transport emissions.
The first tool allows you to check the trajectory of each of the economies in terms of transport CO2 emissions from 1990 to 2024.
Source: ATO visualization based on European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) & IEA. (2025). GHG Emissions of All World Countries: 2025. Publications Office. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/9816914
In the next tool, you can see the progress of all of the economies in terms of transport CO2 emissions and per capita transport emissions over the same period (1990-2024).
Source: ATO visualization based on European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) & IEA. (2025). GHG Emissions of All World Countries: 2025. Publications Office. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/9816914
Source: ATO visualization based on European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) & IEA. (2025). GHG Emissions of All World Countries: 2025. Publications Office. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/9816914
For the previous version (2024), go to this link.
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