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🗓️ #SaveTheDate for the 2024 UNECE Regional Forum on #SustainableDevelopment - a unique & inclusive platform for dialogue to advance the #SDGs as we prepare for the #SummitoftheFuture
⏰13-14 March 2024
📍United Nations Geneva & online
💬Join the conversation: #RFSD2024
#GlobalGoals
New report coordinated by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology on behalf of the Task Force on Reactive #Nitrogen under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary #AirPollution puts forward solutions to halve #nitrogen #pollution from #agriculture & the #food system in #Europe 👇
#Socialcohesion , broadly speaking, is the ‘glue’ that binds society together. But how can it be measured, and strengthened through informed policy making?
Find out in our new publication ➡️unece.org/statistics/pub…
#Automotive industry accounts for 6.1% of #employment & almost 7% of #GDP in 🇪🇺
UNECE WP.29 develops the regulatory framework that allows large-scale introduction of innovative vehicle #technologies , supporting #decarbonization , #electrification , #automation & #safety
#DYK ❓More & more #migrants are joining the approx. 33 M forest workers worldwide🌳but migrant workers face poorer #safety protection than others
On International #MigrantsDay , read UNECE Food and Agriculture Organization @ILO report on occupational safety & #health in the sectror▶️unece.org/sites/default/…
Migration enables millions of people to improve their lives.
But poorly governed migration is a cause of great suffering.
A more humane & orderly management of migration can benefit all, including communities of origin, transit & destination.
#MigrantsDay
Every year, 1.19m lives are cut short, & millions more suffer life-changing injuries, due to road crashes
Icy & snowy conditions add to crash risk in winter❄️
Join global efforts, incl. thru United Nations regulations & traffic rules, for #RoadSafety ▶️unece.org/transport/road… #50by30
Highlighting the importance of urban #forests in our #ClimateAction 🌳
Since the launch of UNECE/FAO Forestry #TreesinCitiesChallenge , a global campaign of #MayorsAction to make cities more #sustainable & resilient, 80+ cities have pledged to plant > 12 M trees🌱🌍
At Better Cotton multistakeholder event about transforming #cotton impact, UNECE shared insights from tracing the first yarn certified Better Cotton in #Uzbekistan from farming through ginning & spinning with #blockchain technology for improved #traceability & #transparency .
To facilitate international #trade & #transport ,United Nations /LOCODE - the unique code for identification of ports, airports, inland depots, freight terminals & other transport locations - covers over 100,000 locations registered in countries all around the 🌏📌unece.org/trade/cefact/u…
#Digitaldivide by #age & place of residence persist in #Europe , with #Internet use being lowest among older persons in #Eastern Europe, the #Caucasus & #CentralAsia , according to UNECE/UNFPA Eastern Europe & Central Asia #ICPD30 report ▶️eeca.unfpa.org/en/node/164949
At #LLDC Ministerial meeting in Yerevan today Tatiana MOLCEAN highlighted the role of UNECE legal instruments & tools in facilitating #transport & #trade connectivity, esp. the new instrument to enhance rail freight transport & standards for digitalization of information flows.