A United Nations High-Level Meeting on Improving Global Road Safety will be held at UN Headquarters in New York on July 20-21, 2026. Convened by the President of the UN General Assembly and the World Health Organization, the theme is ‘Scaling up and accelerating implementation of commitments to halving road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030.’
The event will bring Heads of state and government, ministers, officials and experts together from governments, the UN, civil society, academia, the private sector and philanthropic foundations to advance progress in meeting the goal of halving road deaths and injuries by 2030 that was agreed in the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals.
The 2-day event will be live-streamed online. It builds on the Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting on Road Safety adopted by the UN General Assembly in June 2022, and the Fourth Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety held in Morocco in February 2025. A concise and action-orientated declaration will be agreed in advance by intergovernmental negotiation.
A note by the UN Secretary-General, titled ‘Improving global road safety’ was released on February 13, 2026. The report notes that road traffic injuries remain a major global health and development challenge, and that road safety must be institutionalized as a long-term priority, with robust agencies, strategic planning and measurable targets in place across all countries, and supported by the private sector, civil society and youth movements regardless of income level.