This is the presentation made by Shobhakar Dhakal, Executive Director, Global Carbon Project in an event "Challenge 25 beyond borders?:promoting a low carbon society" on 23 January 2010 at Kobe, Japan, organised by: Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), Hyogo Prefectural Government.

Major transport-environment issues in Asian developing countries are: Choice of transport modes has been skewed towards motorized and private modes (cars, two wheelers) in early stage of economic development; Gap between demand for motorized travel and capacity of infrastructure is high and widening; Cities are trying to develop efficient transport systems but less or no attentions are being pai