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How well are we doing?
Editor's note: We have recently refreshed and updated our data for all countries on the platform, as we revised the 21 policies we cover.
How we all get around - and how goods move through the economy - forms a core mobility challenge for a green economies. Despite our reliance on fossil-fuel powered solutions, support for green transport and mobility, from electrified public transport provision, support for electric vehicle uptake, to high private vehicle emissions standards, is occurring to at least some degree in all 41 countries reviewed in the tracker.
China’s sustained push to electrify freight and public transport, underpinned by strong industrial policy, targeted innovation subsidies, and large-scale public investments, has positioned it at the forefront of this policy area. In 2025, the sales of electric vehicles overtook that of internal combustion engine vehicles for the first time. Canada is also demonstrating strong leadership in this area through its significant federal investments in charging infrastructure, heavy-duty truck decarbonisation, rural mobility inclusion and a comprehensive national clean transport strategy targeting 100% zero-emission vehicle sales by 2035.
Trailing just behind but making steady progress are countries like Türkiye, which has embedded green mobility into its “Net Zero Emission Target: Transport Roadmap”, prioritising electrification and large-scale investment in rail and EV infrastructure. Implementation also includes fiscal incentives for electric vehicles and the expansion of charge infrastructure to all 82 provinces.
Meanwhile, countries like Saudi Arabia, Senegal and Serbia are demonstrating pockets of progress but are lagging behind due to the absence of comprehensive, binding national frameworks, relying instead on pilots, city-level initiatives, or limited incentives without clear nationwide targets or sustained infrastructure investment.
I am certain that when people imagine their ideal city, it would not be a dream of polluted air, cars jammed in endless traffic, or streets filled up with parked cars.
About this policy
Sustainable mobility covers everything from public transport networks, freight transport, private cars and vehicles, down to street infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists. Adapting how we all get around - and how goods move through the economy - is a significant part of the challenge of greening our economies. Not least, because high carbon bio and fossil-derived fuels have been power source of choice for the vast majority of vehicles until recent rapid advances in battery technology, and core piece of nations' emissions profile that was highly resistant to greening.
The first port-of-call for green transport and mobility making best use of the high efficiency mobility systems we already have - such as via scaling public transport provision via smart infrastructure investment and integrated urban planning. Sustainable mobility can then be taken to even higher levels via extensive electrification of existing rail, bus, light-rail, and freight transport systems. Electrification offers a double-win for reducing carbon emissions - and separately, particulate pollution - through economies of scale (utility-scale generation is more efficient than any vehicle-mobile version), and then further through increasing the renewable and clean energy mix of the charging grid.
Private vehicles have been the most challenging piece of the puzzle until the recent 2020s explosion in electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing, driven by extensive Chinese investment and subsequent industrial policy and regulatory standards emerging in key auto-manufacturing nations. The strongest policies are matching these high regulatory standards and subsidies encouraging private EVs, with ongoing investment in public transport - in line with Sustainable Development Goal 11 ambitions on affordability and accessibility. Some policies will adopt distinct rural and urban mobility strategies, or focus on municipal investment and multi-modal planning. Electrification is the core of any credible green transport policy, with biofuel and hydrogen options tailored for sub-sector and aviation solutions - increasingly on pure cost grounds.