High-Level Meeting on Global Road Safety

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).

UN General Assembly resolution 75/308 entitled “Scope, modalities, format and organization of the High-level Meetingon improving global road safety” decides:

• The High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on improving global road safety shall be held in New York in 2022 back-to-back with the high-level political forum on sustainable development convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council, with a view to addressing gaps and challenges, mobilizing political leadership, promoting multisectoral and multi-stakeholder collaboration in this regard, and assessing the progress made in attaining the objectives of the road safety-related targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

• The overall theme of the High-level Meeting will be “The 2030 horizon for road safety: securing a decade of action and delivery”;

• The High-level Meeting will comprise an opening segment, a plenary segment, up to three multi-stakeholder thematic panel discussions and a brief closing segment. (Detailed arrangements could be found in the resolution)

• The High-level Meeting will approve a concise and action-oriented political declaration agreed in advance by consensus through intergovernmental negotiations, to be submitted by the President of the General Assembly for adoption by the UN General Assembly. The Ambassadors of Côte d’Ivoire and the Russian Federation have been tasked with leading these negotiations.

Office of the President of the General Assembly is working with Member States, UN agencies and regional commissions and other partners to finalize themes of the multi-stakeholder panels and detailed arrangement of this high-level meeting. Special accreditation process of non-governmental organizations has been launched. Please click the link below.

• Letter from the President of the General Assembly-HLM on Road Safety Updated Programme and procedural issues (29 June 2022)
• Letter from the President of the General Assembly – HLM on Road Safety – Concept note  (3 May 2022)
• Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030
• Letter from the President of the General Assembly – Road Safety Event Report (7 January 2022)
• Letter from the President of the General Assembly –  Supporting Event for the High Level Event on Road Safety (6 October 2021)
• Supporting Event for the High Level Event on Road Safety (Concept Note)
• UN General Assembly resolution 74/299 “Improving global road safety”
• UN General Assembly resolution 75/308 on “Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting on improving global road safety”