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Deputy Minister Nino Tandilashvili attends the Fifth High-level Meeting on Transport, Health and Environment
Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia (MEPA), Ms Nino Tandilashvili attended the Fifth High-level Meeting on Transport, Health and Environment organized as a joint effort by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of Austria in frames of the Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme. In the course of the meeting, attendees scrutinized matters related to transport means, impact on peoples’ health and an environment.“Georgia has cultivated a multi-sectoral council on climate change, which aims at ensuring an effective deployment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement. The Council has supported Georgia’s Updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which has been recently adopted by the Government of Georgia. Moreover, Georgia has just adopted the Climate Change Strategy for 2030 and Climate Change Action Plan for 2021 – 2023. The core objective of the Pan-European Programme (THE PEP) is to ensure activities for transport, health and environmental protection sectors, which will be translated into green and healthy transport. We are fully committed to joining forces and developing green and heathy transport. Therefore, Georgia has adopted decreased emissions as one of the priorities” – Deputy Minister Tandilashvili stated.
The Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme (THE PEP), a joint programme of UNECE and WHO/Europe, provides a unique intersectoral policy platform and brings together ministers and high-level officials from the governments of 56 Member States of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the WHO European region, and representatives of international, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, academia, the business community and other key stakeholders in the fields of transport, health and environment. The program complements an integrated policy approach, which aims at joining forces between transport, health and environmental protection sectors in Europe for ensuring green and healthy transport in Europe.
The meeting was concluded by attendees adopting transport, health and environmental Declaration of Vienna. The Vienna Declaration sets vision of transitioning to clean, safe, healthy and inclusive mobility and transport systems. The meeting also resulted into adopting the first Pan-European Master Plan for Cycling Promotion.