Transportation and Public Safety
Предисловие
По оценкам Всемирной торговой организации (ВТО) полное осуществление Соглашения об упрощении процедур торговли (СУПТ) позволит снизить торговые издержки в среднем на 143 процента и увеличить мировую торговлю на сумму до одного триллиона долларов в год при этом наилучший результат может быть достигнут в беднейших странах. В их число входят развивающиеся страны и страны с переходной экономикой включая несколько государств-членов Европейской экономической комиссии Организации Объединенных Наций (ЕЭК). Статья 10.3 СУПТ ВТО подчеркивает решающую роль которую международные стандарты играют в осуществлении соглашения и поощряет согласование с международными стандартами в целях упрощения процедур импорта и экспорта.
Introduction
Every year approximately 90000 people are killed in road traffic accidents in the ECE region. Target 3.6 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development had the aim of halving the overall number of road deaths by 2020 compared to 2010. In September 2020 the United Nations General Assembly (resolution A/RES/74/299) initiated a second Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 with the explicit target to reduce road deaths and injuries by at least fifty per cent during this period.
Transport in UNECE
Today UNECE services 60 United Nations inland transport legal instruments. Several of the legal instruments are global either by design or because their success has caused them to grow beyond the ECE region. In addition to negotiating the amendments to existing legal instruments UNECE has been active in facilitating new legal instruments. Its normative activities are enhanced with developing methodologies guidelines and definitions on subjects such as transport planning data collection and the collection of transport statistics. UNECE’s work on transport is governed by the Inland Transport Committee (ITC) and its 21 Working Parties which are in turn supported by more than 40 formal and informal expert groups and in cooperation with 9 treaty bodies (Administrative Committees). Annual sessions of ITC are the key moments of this comprehensive intergovernmental work when the results from all subsidiary bodies as well as the UNECE Sustainable Transport Division are presented to ITC members and contracting parties.
Digital innovation: Case studies for the future
This chapter will illustrate how digital innovation can promote inclusive and sustainable development across Asia and the Pacific.
Foreword
Asia and the Pacific is at the forefront of a global digital transformation. Innovations in cognitive digital technologies digital finance government technology and the Internet of things are reshaping the way we do business deliver public services and protect people and our planet. Intelligently deployed and properly governed digital innovations could turbocharge sustainable development efforts. They could enable the extraordinary collective push that is required to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at a time when progress is alarmingly slow. Yet for this to happen common understanding and shared approaches are needed across the region.
What should be done?
In order to reduce road traffic injuries and deaths among children in the nations of South Asia road safety decision-makers and practitioners should agree a strategic approach that will optimize lives saved while simultaneously addressing practical considerations costs and local policy and planning contexts.
Prefacio
Las Recomendaciones relativas al Transporte de Mercancías Peligrosas están destinadas a los gobiernos y a las organizaciones internacionales que se ocupan de la reglamentación del transporte de mercancías peligrosas.