Turning Challenge into Opportunity 2025
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Mobility cross-sector – converging realities across
low-carbon mobility suppliers1.4
Across the mobility ecosystem, suppliers face
distinct emissions reduction pathways, but
recurring themes emerge that cut across aviation,
maritime and trucking alike. This chapter explores
those cross-sector dynamics, highlighting shared
structural challenges – including policy design,
infrastructure readiness and financing constraints
– that lead to prospective opportunities for
coordinated solutions. The analysis intentionally
remains high-level, respecting each sector’s unique
regulatory and operational context while identifying
common enablers that could accelerate progress
collectively. By comparing experiences across these
sectors, the goal is not to conflate them, but to
illuminate where alignment could make the entire
system move faster towards viable, scalable low-
carbon supply.
Policy-driven demand floors are
globalizing – reach and shape
vary by geography
Across the mobility ecosystem, suppliers
interviewed for this report characterized regulatory
policy as a principal way to convert emissions
reduction ambition into bankable demand.
However, the consistency, durability and scope of
policies diverge by sector and geography.
The shipping sector has demonstrated global
vision with the IMO’s Net-Zero Framework (NZF)
– a regulatory push to combine mandates on
emissions limits and GHG pricing across an entire
industry sector. While its realization was postponed
by 12 months in a vote of MEPC IMO members in
October 2025 – carrying significant impacts – the
NZF nevertheless marks the sector’s ambition to
transition from disparate policy coordination and
voluntary efficiency schemes to a first-of-a-kind
form of enforceable climate governance. By contrast, aviation and trucking suppliers
described parallel but more geographically bounded
trajectories – robust domestic and/or regional
policies that seek to anchor demand but lack cross-
border harmonization.
In aviation, policy obligations are growing and
mandates have reached operational specificity.
Examples include the following:
–European Union’s ReFuelEU Aviation, mandating
a minimum of 2% SAF share in all EU airports
starting in 2025, increasing to 70% SAF in all EU
airports from 2050.73
–Japan stated its objective for SAF to reach a
minimum of 10% of airline jet fuel by 2030.74
–Singapore’s Ministry of Transport introduced
the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS)
Amendment Bill, which imposes a levy on
departing flights to facilitate SAF usage, passed
in October 2025.75
In trucking, regulatory drivers are growing
increasingly sustainability-orientated but are still
regional and mixed in design. For example, the
EU’s revised tightening of CO2-emission standards
for heavy-duty vehicles and its extension of ETS2
to road transport from 2027 create a carbon
price signal, but not yet a coordinated fuel or fleet
mandate.76,77 At the same time, emerging national
low-carbon fuel standards and renewable-fuel
quotas, seen in regions such as Scandinavia, Latin
America and parts of East Asia, sustain localized
demand for renewable diesel, biomethane and
hydrogen, but do not translate into a cross-
border compliance market in which many logistics
providers operate.
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