Safedrive Africa Foundation champions the Clean Air Promise in our community to save more lives through road safety and environmentally friendly awareness program, we engage drivers and Logistics fleet operators including community, public service vehicles saccos and welfares, members, supporters and climate justice activists to make the Clean Air Promise for good health. Working with Public Health sectors, Advocacy and Environmental Groups Join National and global Campaigns to Protect Children and Families from Dangerous Air Pollution from vehicles. Paris agreement identifies energy and transport sectors as a significant mitigation priority whose decarbonisation is critical in achieving sustainable development globally.
Most African countries are signatories to Paris agreement and have committed to mitigate and adapt to climate crisis through their Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). A good example is Kenyan NDC which encourages “Clean, sustainable and affordable energy and transportation systems essential for Kenya’s sustainable development and are infrastructure enablers for the Big Four agenda” (NCCAP 2018-2022). Clean air is not an optional policy objective. It’s a fundamental human right. Everyone needs to breathe clean air. That milions of people today are breathing dirty, deadly air constitutes a global health, environmental and human rights crisis.
The UN Environment Program (UNEP) is concerned with the global environmental agenda, and our focus is to improve the quality of life of nations and people without compromising that of future generations. The new UN Resolution on Improving Global Road Safety really strengthens the correlation between the road safety agenda and UNEP’s goals. It widens the way we should think about road safety, setting the overall aim of reducing road deaths and injuries in the context of mobility, sustainability, equity, health, and environment. This has valuable potential for the environment, a gain for road safety, is a gain for us all. The resolution’s timing is supremely relevant to the post-pandemic soul-searching happening in many countries right now around mobility and air quality, and it makes the Stockholm Declaration agreed in February 2020 seem almost prophetic.
Air pollution is now the greatest environmental threat to health, causing approximately 7 million premature deaths each year from diseases like stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. Many sources of air pollution also drive climate change and damages nature and ecosystems. Cleaner air will make us healthier, protect nature, help achieve global climate change goals, improve the quality life and provide a secure and equitable future for all. Let’s work together at home and in our workplaces, communities, governments and across borders to improve our air. Many air pollutants contribute directly to the climate crisis and improving air quality can enhance climate change mitigation. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development also recognizes that air pollution abatement is important to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. Air pollution is preventable, but we need everyone on board from individuals to private companies, nonprofit organisations to governments.
Increasing walking, biking and other modes of road active travel can help to reduce Air pollutions, diseases and improve the lives of children and adolescents as well as saving money on busing children to school. Air pollution is also found to increase the risk of certain diseases. While this impacts people of all ages, babies and young children are more at risk.
Safedrive Africa Foundation is committed to protect the environment by working together with the community development advocates, climate justice activist, Local Leaders and local authorities to applaud the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT),construct a safe cycling lanes to support UNEP share the road program, respect our neighbors, cause no harm to people, and help the country move towards a lower-carbon future to save more lives from diseases. SDAF works towards achieving benefits for the environment, safety and accessibility. We support government agencies to Invest in infrastructure for walking and cycling that leads to massive benefits for:
SDAF supports environmentally friendly and advocate for accountable public transportation governance and investments that grow transits, vanpool, carpool ridership, safe biking and walking safely throughout the country in the most cost-effective way bringing together communities, businesses, schools and the health sector to:
SDAF advocates for designated road space for pedestrians and cyclists in proportion to the demand for non-motorized transport, it is also one of the most cost-effective actions for saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Improving conditions for walking and cycling in our cities is critical if we are to achieve safe and accessible mobility for everyone in our cities. Walking and cycling have multiple benefits for cities, they improve the health to its users (and do not damage the health of others as well as not causing any harm to the environment and providing a means of transport that are free or low cost).
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