I congratulate the team and SDSN for all their efforts into producing the Europe Sustainable Development Report 2022… Achieving the SDG agenda requires partnership from all and a clear vision and more financing. The report shows where most of the progress is done and where the EU is struggling and has challenges.

This year's European Sustainable Development Report should be essential reading for all policy-makers and all politicians alike… The ESDR is thus a model of professional and scientific data collection and analysis. It is thanks to expertise and analysis such as this that the European Parliament is in a position influence legislation and policy-making to further the SDGs.

Tools like the SDG Index and Dashboards help countries prioritize areas for action and help civil society groups to hold governments accountable.

Our partnership with SDSN represents a commitment to advancing a geographic approach to these global goals, delivering data and GIS solutions that can accelerate our ability to achieve a more sustainable future for everyone.

This innovative partnership with SDSN completes our institutional set-up in favor of the implementation of the SDGs. The work carried out will provide a critical and scientifically rigorous perspective on the policies we are pursuing and which we intend to finance in part through the SDG bond issue. The SDSN will play an important advisory role by providing observations and recommendations that will be considered in the design of our public policies and government action, but also shared with our various stakeholders, including our international investors.