The pressing issue of climate change, which world-renowned naturalist David Attenborough called “the biggest threat to security that modern humans have ever faced,” brought world leaders to a single stage culminating in the landmark Paris Agreement. This resulted in the requirement for countries to submit climate action plans known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), outlining their emissions-reduction targets and the measures they would undertake to achieve them.

This paper analyzes the uptake of electric vehicles in Asia and the Pacific and shows how the electrification of transport systems can speed up the transition to a low-carbon future.