Explanation:

The “3rd High Level Global Conference on Road Safety for Achieving Global Goals 2030” was held on February 19-20, 2020 in Stockholm, Sweden. Objective of the conference is to bring road safety on the global agenda by drawing up a road-map for reaching the United Nation’s goal set under the UN Decade of Action of reducing road crashes by 2030. The conference was a follow up of the 2nd High Level Global Conference on “Traffic Safety-Time of Results” in 2015 in Brazil. The conference was organised in active collaboration with World Bank, World Health Organisation (WHO) and other agencies. The Conference saw the UN Road Safety Fund unveil 10 new projects that will target key gaps in the road safety systems of 12 countries. The Stockholm Declaration, created on the basis of the Moscow Declaration of 2009 and the Brasilia Declaration of 2015, calls for a 50% reduction in Road deaths and injuries from 2020 to 2030 on way to Vision Zero by 2050. It recognised that SDG target 3.6 will not be met by 2020 (Target 3.6 is: By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents)