10:00-10:50 am GMT+3 | Transport Pavilion, COP31; Antalya, Türkiye

Asia and the Pacific’s low- and middle-income economies need about US$2.6 trillion a year for transport between 2025 and 2035, roughly three times historical levels. Yet many countries lack the data, models and project pipelines needed to turn climate commitments into finance. The Data to Deal (D2D) approach, applied by the Asian Development Bank with the Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) Programme funded by UK FCDO, closes this gap. It links open data and modelling to national planning processes such as NDC 3.0 and transport strategies, and then to concrete, financeable interventions.

The event will share the latest progress and thinking from D2D pilots, potentially presented by government representatives themselves. Two open tools will be showcased: the Asian Transport Observatory’s Transport Development Finance Explorer and the Transport Data Commons Initiative (TDCI). A panel with UN ESCAP, FCDO, an MDB representative and a country representative will then discuss how to scale finance for low-carbon, climate-resilient transport, and which models, tools and partnerships are needed to do so.