Delivering a Just Transition: Advancing Decent Work, GenderEquality, and Social Protection The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)is the most inclusiveintergovernmental platform in the Asia-Pacific region. The Commission promotes cooperationamong its 53 member States and 9 associate members in pursuit of solutions to sustainabledevelopment challenges. ESCAP is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations. The ESCAP secretariat supports inclusive, resilient and sustainable development in the regionby generating action-oriented knowledge, and by providing technical assistance and capacitybuilding services in support of national development objectives, regional agreements and theimplementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Asian Development Bank (ADB)is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient,and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty.Established in 1966, it is owned by 69 members—49 from the region. Its main instrumentsfor helping its developing member countries are policy dialogue, loans, equity investments,guarantees, grants, and technical assistance. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)is the leading United Nations organizationfighting to end the injustice of poverty, inequality, and climate change. Working with our broadnetwork of experts and partners in 170 countries, we help nations to build integrated, lastingsolutions for people and planet. Delivering a Just Transition: Advancing Decent Work, Gender Equality,and Social Protection © 2025 United Nations, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Development ProgrammePrinted in Thailand This work is co-published by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and thePacific (ESCAP), Asian Development Bank and United Nations Development Programme. This work is available open access by complying with the Creative Commons license created forinter-governmental organizations, available at:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/. Publishers must delete the original emblems from their edition and create a new cover design.Photocopies and reproductions of excerpts are allowed with proper credits. For queries related to the open access licence or queries and/or requests not covered by the openaccess licence, please contact the United Nations atpermissions@un.org. ISBN 978-92-9277-200-0 (print); 978-92-9277-201-7 (PDF) Publication Stock No. SPR250060-2 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/SPR250060-2 Cataloguing-In-Publication Data United Nations, Asian Development Bank, and United Nations Development Programme. Deliveringa Just Transition: Advancing Decent Work, Gender Equality, and Social Protection Bangkok, Thailand: United Nations, 2025 1. Climate change 2. Green Economy 3. Blue Economy 4. Just Transition 5. Decent Work 6. GenderEquality 7. Social Protection 8. Sustainable Development Goals 9. Asia and the Pacific 10. UnitedNations, Asian Development Bank, and United Nations Development Programme The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect theviews and policies of ADB or its Board of Governors or the Secretariat of the United Nations (ESCAPand UNDP) or the governments they represent. The United Nations (ESCAP and UNDP) and ADB donot guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this publication and accept no responsibility forany consequence of their use. Any reference to a commercial entity or product in this publicationdoes not imply endorsement. The designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document donot imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the UnitedNations, ADB or its Board of Governors, or the governments they represent, concerning the legal orother status of any country, territory, city or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitationof its frontiers or boundaries. This publication follows the United Nations practice in references tocountries. Where there are space constraints, some country names have been abbreviated. ADBrecognizes “China” as the People’s Republic of China, “Kyrgyzstan” as the Kyrgyz Republic, “Turkey”as Türkiye, “USA” as the United States, “Vietnam” as Viet Nam, and “Hanoi” as Ha Noi. For Afghanistan and Myanmar, the data presented generally depict the socio-economic situationbefore August 2021 and February 2021, respectively. The profound changes in the two countriesin 2021 have therefore not been reflected in the data. Effective 1 February 2021, ADB placed atemporary hold on sovereign project disbursements and new contracts in Myanmar. All queries other than requests for translations and other uses not covered by the CC BY 3.0 IGOlicense can be addressed to any of the co-publishing organizations as follows: Chief Section on Sustainable Development and Countries in Special SituationsOffice of the Exe