High-Level Meeting on Global Road Safety (Multi-stakeholder Panel 1 and Panel 2) - General Assembly, 76th session
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Meetings & Events / General Assembly / 76th Session
Meetings & Events / High Level Events
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03:03:25
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DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS - DGC
Summary
The overall theme of the High-level Meeting will be "The 2030 horizon for road safety: securing a decade of action and delivery" - 1) Multi-stakeholder Panel 1: Incorporating road safety into sustainable development: political will and whole-of-government approach. 2) Multi-stakeholder Panel 2: Mobilizing all stakeholders to accelerate the implementation of the Global Plan and achieve the 50% reduction.
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Multi-stakeholder Panel 1: Incorporating road safety into sustainable development: political will and whole-of-government approach. Keynote speaker: Ms. Audley Shaw, Jamaica Minister of Transport and Former Minister of Finance

Multi-stakeholder Panel 2: Mobilizing all stakeholders to accelerate the implementation of the Global Plan and achieve the 50% reduction. Keynote speaker: Ms. Rochelle Sobel, President of the Association for Safe International Road Travel (ASIRT)

Road traffic crashes claim nearly 1.3 million lives every year and are the leading cause of death among children and young adults. In addition to the human suffering caused by road traffic injuries, they also incur a heavy economic burden on victims and their families, both through treatment costs for the injured and through loss of productivity of those killed or disabled. More broadly, road traffic injuries have a serious impact on national economies, costing countries 3% of their annual gross domestic product. For this reason, SDG target 3.6 called for the halving of the number of road traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2020. Ensuring the safety of transport systems is also directly linked to SDG targets on sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11) and climate action (SDG 13).

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