Introduction by the Executive Secretary

UNECE also supported the implementation of ecosystems, food production and the climate, Parties to the Air development of agreements for transboundary water cooperation, democracy in Africa and worldwide by becoming the first country EPR recommendations on waste management, climate change and Convention decided to launch negotiations on a revision of the financing of transboundary water cooperatio. [...] As the people of the region and around the world increasingly felt the impacts of climate change, from wildfires to flooding, heatwaves and drought, UNECE continued to provide practical tools to support countries in their climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, to leverage financing, and to strengthen collaboration. [...] In 2023, UNECE celebrated the 50th anniversary implementation of the UN regulation on safety-belts, which has saved millions of lives over the past five decades; presented and discussed the preliminary findings and recommendations of the Road Safety Performance Review (RSPR) of Uzbekistan; and supported Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia in improving road safety legislation and strategies. [...] Assisting Albania and Serbia in closing coal mines and ensuring a just transition: a UNECE study and workshop supported the two countries towards the design and Marking 25 years of the United Nations Special Programme implementation of a programme for an efficient, safe, and environmentally conscious for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA), the first summit mine closure in line with a green econ. [...] for the digitalization of multimodal data and document Developing forest information systems and digitalization in the forest sector in exchange along the Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor, and the Caucasus, Central Asia and Eastern Europe: UNECE and FAO introduced national welcomed plans to establish a dedicated SPECA Multi- experts to state-of-the-art technologies and analytical methods for the.