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The United Nations and JCDecaux launch Global Road Safety campaign to address the first cause of mortality for young people aged 5-29

The United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Road Safety, Mr Jean Todt, and Jean-Charles Decaux, co-CEO of JCDecaux, launched today a new UN Global Road Safety campaign to address road traffic crashes, which are the leading cause of death for people aged 5 to 29 around the world. 

Road traffic crashes kill 1.35 million people every year and injure over 50 million, often for life. Developing countries account for 93% of the victims. The most vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists) and the poor are disproportionately affected worldwide. 

UNECE and partners work to deploy in-depth analysis of road crashes for better road safety in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia are in the process of adopting road safety strategies and actions plans that rely on modern tools. In both countries, road safety audit and road safety inspection are recognized by legislation, but in-depth analysis of road crashes is still not part of the legislation.  

UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety visits Latin America (21 August-1 September) to call for accrued mobilization for safer mobility

The Special Envoy Jean Todt will visit Honduras (August 21-22), El Salvador (August 23-24), Brazil (August 26-29), and Paraguay (August 30-31) to meet with ministers and representatives of the public and private sector and NGOs, to advocate for the effective implementation of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030, which aims to halve the number of victims on the road by 2030.   

Digitalization of transit along the middle corridor from Central Asia to Europe to accelerate thanks to eTIR

Countries along the middle corridor that connects Central Asia with Europe have agreed on concrete next steps to accelerate the interconnection of their national customs systems with the eTIR international system in an effort to digitalize transit in the region.   

25 years of cooperation for safer and cleaner vehicles are a testament to multilateralism

For many people around the world, the work and achievements of the United Nations remain in the realms of grand summits of heads of state on pressing global issues, of diplomatic brokering of peace agreements, of urgent humanitarian interventions for people in the greatest need, and other high-profile actions we can see in the news. But this only offers a glimpse of the huge breadth of work undertaken across all kinds of sectors, which is often of a highly technical nature, and which brings very tangible benefits for millions – or sometimes billions – of lives every single day. 

UNECE adopts groundbreaking regulation introducing methodology to measure particle emissions from cars and vans’ braking systems

Following strong reduction from exhaust particle emissions (PM 2.5 and 10) over the past 20 years, due to international and national vehicle regulations, non-exhaust sources now make up approximately 80% of particle emissions from vehicle use, compared to some 40% in 2000. Non-exhaust emissions arise from road, tyre and brake wear and road dust resuspension.   

UNECE adopts global regulation to measure tailpipe emissions in real driving conditions

The accurate measurement of vehicles’ tailpipe emissions, a key element in governments’ policy decisions and consumers’ choices to reduce the impact on air quality and the environment, will be significantly enhanced thanks to the adoption today of the United Nations Regulation on global Real Driving Emissions (Global RDE). 

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