Global Facility to Decarbonize Transport Annual Report (2025)

Development depends on transport that works. Transport systems connect people to opportunity, support businesses and trade, and enable economies to grow. When transport is reliable, efficient, and affordable, it strengthens competitiveness and improves lives. When it is not, it raises costs, constrains growth, and leaves communities more vulnerable to shocks. Today, governments face a clear challenge: deliver better transport systems at speed and at scale, while managing fiscal pressures, rapid urbanization, and growing risks to infrastructure. Meeting this challenge requires smart choices early on—investments that are efficient, resilient, and built to last. 

This is where the Global Facility to Decarbonize Transport (GFDT) plays a critical role. GFDT helps countries and World Bank teams prepare the right projects from the start. By financing upstream analytics, policy reform, and pilots, GFDT reduces risk, strengthens project design, and turns priorities into bankable investments. The result is transport that performs better—moving people and goods more efficiently, lowering long-term costs, and reducing emissions as part of sound development.