– 186 – (7.2 – Other miscellaneous matters) 4 to facilitate access to ITU publications, brochures and reports on telecommunications/ICTs of relevance to climate change, invites administrations to liaise with their national counterparts responsible for environmental issues in order to provide information and develop common proposals related to the role of telecommunications/ICTs in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change, for incorporation in a new United Nations agreement at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP), to be held in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December 2009. Ref.: Documents C09/109 and C09/120. R 1318 (C10) ITU’s role in ICTs and improving Road Safety The Council, considering a) that the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a Resolution (A/RES/64/255) on improving global road safety which proclaims the period 2011-2020 as the “Decade of Action for Road Safety;” b) that the UN, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), has previously established the “United Nations Road Safety Collaboration” (UNRSC) to address the increasing trend of road traffic deaths and injuries around the world; c) that the UN Secretary-General issued a UNRSC report on “Improving global road safety” (A/64/266), which identified nearly 1.3 million road traffic deaths and 20 – 50 million injuries per year, and an estimated $518 billion in global economic loss from those injuries to Governments and individuals; d) that the UNRSC is currently developing a draft action plan for the decade which addresses among its topics road safety management, road-user behavior, and road-safety education; e) that driver distraction and road-user behavior, which includes among many examples “texting”, “text messaging”, interfacing with in-vehicle navigation or communication systems, are among the leading contributors to road traffic fatalities and injuries; f) that the successful implementation of this task, including the development of an in-vehicle architecture and Vehicle Gateway Platform (VGP), requires cross-sectoral collaboration within the ITU and among the World Standards Cooperation (WSC) partners; noting a) that ICTs, including intelligent transport systems (ITS), provide mechanisms for vehicular and passenger safety; b) that the proliferation of integrated in-vehicle ICTs and nomadic devices, including navigational information and electronic data communications devices, may contribute to driver distraction;