Safe System Leadership: Enabling Real Results for Sustainability and Road Safety

In 2020, the world will gather in Stockholm at the Third UN Ministerial conference on Road Safety to examine the results at the end of the Decade of Action, and to chart a new course toward zero fatalities in 2020 and beyond. The Decade of Action has helped stabilize the rise of global road fatality rates, but we are yet to see real change in lowering them. 1.35 million lives continue to be lost each year around the world.

The Third UN Ministerial conference aims to bring about a major shift in how we tackle road deaths – by reinforcing the link between road safety and other critical sustainable development challenges, particularly the sustainable development goals of the 2030 Agenda. It envisions a multi-sectoral approach bringing together national and local governments, public and private enterprises in the pursuit of shared goals that can impact road safety. The World Resources Institute is hosting a global group of thought-leaders to help us imagine what these new approaches to road safety will look like. We invite you to attend this discussion.

Agenda

Opening remarks

(2:00 – 2:10)

Ani Dasgupta, Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Keynote Address

(2:10 – 2:30)

Etienne Krug, Director, Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, World Health Organization

Panel 1: What has worked in cities and countries to reduce traffic fatalities? What should we focus on in the next decade?

(2:30 – 3:15)

Moderated by Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Deputy Director, Urban Mobility, WRI

Dagmawit Moges, Minister of Transport, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

José Agustín Aguerre, Manager, Infrastructure and Energy, Inter-American Development Bank

Lilli Matson, Chief Safety, Health and Environment Officer, Transport for London

Soames Job, Global Lead for Road Safety, World Bank

Coffee Break (3:15 – 3:30)

Panel 2: Road safety advances and challenges in the context of the United States

(3.30 – 4.15)

Moderated by Benjamin Welle, Director of Integrated Transport & Innovation, WRI

Eileen McCarthy, Co-Chair, DC Pedestrian Advisory Council

Eric Dumbaugh, Associate Director, Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety

Jeff Michael, Distinguished Scholar, Johns Hopkins University

Jeffrey Paniati, Executive Director and CEO, Institute of Transportation Engineers

Leah Shahum, Founder and Director, Vision Zero Network

Conversation with Zoleka Mandela, United Nations global ambassador

(4:15 – 4:35)

with Avi Silverman, Deputy Director, FIA Foundation

Panel 3: The role of private industry and companies in reducing global road deaths

(4:35 – 5:20)

Moderated by David Ward, Secretary General of the Global New Car Assessment Programme

Dan Chen, Vice President, 3M Transportation Safety Division

Paulo Humanes, Vice President, Business Development & New Mobility, PTV Group

Peter Kronberg, Safety Director, Volvo Group Chief Technology Office

Natalie Wong, Business Development Adviser, Shell Foundation

Closing remarks

(5:20 – 5:30)

Sergio Avelleda, Director of Urban Mobility, WRI

Reception