GSR4 – Shaping the Just Transition: Challenges and Opportunities towards Sustainable Transport

Oct 15, 2025

This publication is the Module 1 of the Transport, Climate and Sustainability Global Status Report– 4th Edition

This module focuses on shaping the just transition towards sustainable transport, with a deep dive into its challenges and opportunities.One of the chapters looks at the 10 years after the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda, on the road to the first-ever UN Decade of Sustainable Transport. The other chapters dive into advancing the right to mobility (passenger transport), transporting shared prosperity (freight transport and logistics), logistics for climate action, building adaptation and resilience within transport systems and across communities and economies, driving gender equality to empower women and transform transport, gender responsive approaches in freight in Asia, a just transition for transport workers, and driving health forward through the critical link between transport and well-being.

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