This brief provides policy recommendations to reduce air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions in Bhutan’s transport sector.

Increasing air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles has become a major concern in Bhutan, where vehicle ownership is growing by 15% per year. This brief discusses five policy interventions to reduce vehicle emissions:

• importation of low-sulfur fuels,
• update of vehicle emission standards,
• upgrade of the vehicle emission inspection system,
• restriction of diesel cars and light-duty vehicles, and
• promotion of low-carbon vehicles.