"TRANSPORT SYSTEMS"

Almost the entire global population breathes air that exceeds the World Health Organization’s (WHO) air quality limits and threatens their health, according to a new WHO database. WHO

General Assembly unanimously adopts texts on combating islamophobia, protecting rangelands, Tackling difficulties for widows, bicycles as public transportation.

Interactive dialogue to discuss the importance of road safety-related domestic and international finance for achieving the road safety-related Sustainable Development Goal targets and its broader positive impact on public health and the economy.

Ahead of the annual UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) on 31 October, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned that the world is ‘way off-track’ in containing global temperature rise with the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most important greenhouse gas, reaching 413.2 parts per million in 2020. This is 149 per cent of the pre-industrial level. UNTV CH

In his address to the second United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the “door is closing for action on climate, nature and pollution,” and stressed the need to “decarbonize all means of transport, in order to get to net-zero emissions by 2050 globally.” UNIFEED

Briefing by Shantanu Mukherjee, Chief of the Integrated Policy Analysis Branch in DESA's Division for Sustainable Development Goals, Nancy L. Vandycke, Economic Advisor at the World Bank, and Jan Hoffman, Head of UNCTAD's Trade Logistics Branch, on the Interagency Report on Sustainable Transport.

A spokesperson said the UN remains “very concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation for the 13.4 million people in need” throughout Syria, adding that the cross-border humanitarian operation from Turkey “is the last lifeline preventing a humanitarian catastrophe.” UNIFEED

Ahead of World Health Day, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed that COVID-19 has “exacerbated” inequalities both between and within countries and said, “While we have all undoubtedly been impacted by the pandemic, the poorest and most marginalized have been hit hardest - both in terms of lives and livelihoods lost.” WHO

With much of the world’s commercial transport systems, particularly airlines, grounded by COVID-19, WFP - the world’s largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger and a global leader in logistics – has stepped in to move passengers and huge volumes of health and other supplies needed in the fight against the global pandemic. WFP

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.