Friends of Sustainable Transport Lunch Session on Road Safety and Sustainable Transport

The Missions of Thailand, Kenya and the Netherlands, in cooperation with UN-DESA, are organizing the third meeting in a series of lunchtime panel discussions on Sustainable Transport. The topic for the next meeting will be “Road Safety, an integral part of sustainable transport”.

Panel composition:

• Ms. Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Director, Health & Road Safety Program of EMBARQ-The World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Center for Sustainable Transport
• Mr. Dmitry Maksimychev, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN
• Mr. Esteban Diez Roux,  Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Transport Division Infrastructure and Environment Sector
• Mr. Werner Obermeyer, Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO), in its capacity as lead in the UN Decade for Action on Road Safety

Background Document: The Role of Sustainable Transport in Traffic Safety