C. Mayer, 30 Novembre - 1 Dicembre 2021 - Webinar: La sostenibilità ambientale e territoriale: misure statistiche per l’Agenda 2030 Titolo: Eurostat monitoring of sustainable development in the EU context

1. 2021 Monitoring report on
Sustainable Development
in the EU context
Christine Mayer
Team leader ‘Sustainable development indicators’ | Eurostat
30.11//2021

2. Different levels of SDG monitoring
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3. UN and EU SDG indicator sets comparison
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UN SDG indicators
(as of December 2020)
EU SDGs indicators
(2021 set)
Structured along 169 targets Structured along 17 goals
231 indicators 102 indicators;
67 aligned with UN SDG indicators
Only 56% (130 indicators) ‘ready to use’ (tier I) 100% ‘ready to use’
12 multipurpose indicators 37 multipurpose indicators
Comprehensive reviews in 2020 and 2025 Reviewed annually

4. 102 different indicators, evenly distributed across the 17 SDGs
37 multipurpose indicators (i.e. used for more than 1 SDG),
reinforcing links between goals and narrative of reporting
90 indicators updated annually
63 indicators from ESS, 39 from non-ESS sources
67 aligned with UN SDG indicators
EU SDG indicator set 2021
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5. Assessment of individual indicator trends…
…with an existing quantitative policy target:
„Is the EU on track to reach the target?“
…without a quantitative target:
„Is the EU moving in the right direction with
regards to…?“
Aggregation at SDG level by calculating an „average“ performance of
all indicators of the goal. Only for goals with available assessments for
at least 75% of the indicators.
Trend assessment methodology
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6. Overview of EU progress towards the SDGs over the past 5 years
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7. Key results 2021
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SDG 16 – Peace, justice and strong institutions
• Deaths due to homicide and population reporting crime, violence
and vandalism went down
• Government expenditure on law courts increased
SDG 1 – No poverty
• Considerable improvement in all poverty dimensions
• Fewer people face problems related to their homes
(overcrowding, poor dwelling conditions etc.)
SDG 3 – Good health and well-being
• Improvement in noise and air pollution as well as smoking
• Healthy life years at birth increased

8. Key results 2021
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SDG 13 – Climate action
• Net greenhouse gas emissions reduced, but more progress necessary
to reach -55% by 2030
• Impacts of climate change keep intensifying – European surface
temperature, ocean acidity
SDG 15 – Life on land
• Forest area and Natura 2000 area increased slightly
• Bird index improved, butterfly index deteriorated
SDG 7 – Affordable and clean energy
• EU not on track to meet +32.5% energy efficiency by 2030
• Share of renewable energy is rising, further efforts necessary

9. Country overview
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10. New features in 2021
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• Chapter on impact of COVID-19
• Indicators for measuring spill-over effects
• Analysis of (de)coupling
• Improved Member States visualisation and presentation on Eurostat
website
• Gap indicators included in digital publication

11. Impact of COVID-19 on SDG
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• Analyse indicators for which 2020 (quarterly) data is available – importance
of timeliness
• To cover all three dimensions (social, economic, environmental)
• Excess mortality
• Employment, unemployment
• Young people neither in employment nor in education and training (NEET)
• GDP, general government gross debt
• Electricity consumption, commercial air flights, CO2 emissions

12. Impact of COVID-19 on SDG
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13. Spill-over effects
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2019 request from the EU Parliament: „However, the European Parliament and
other stakeholders regret that the spill-over effect of EU policies on third
countries remains a blind spot in the evaluation of the EU's contribution to the
SDGs.”
December 2019 Council conclusions: „The Council also notes that the EU
information concerning the spill-overs generated by the EU's policies around the
world needs to be improved.”

14. Methodology to calculate spill-over effects
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Multi-regional-input-output (MRIO)
tables
• Global MRIO Lab
• Indicators: CO2 and air
pollution, income, employment
Eurostat footprint indicators
• System of Economic-Environmental
Accounts (SEEA) standard
• Indicators: raw material footprint,
carbon footprint and air pollution
footprint
Estimating effects of consumption in EU Member
States, including effects caused globally

15. Material footprint
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EU RMC in 2018 - 14.8 tonnes per capita
Imports - 7.8 tonnes per capita (RME)
Exports - 5.3 tonnes per capita (RME)

16. Results of spill-over analysis
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Employment (Global MRIO Lab)
• Imports – 69 million people
• Exports – 25 million people
CO2 emissions
• Eurostat
• Imports - 1.0 t per capita
• Exports – 1.3 t per capita
• Global MRIO Lab
• Imports - 1.6 t per capita
• Exports – 0.6 t per capita

17. Eurostat EU SDG monitoring package June 2021
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Digital publication
Online database
Assessments of
national recovery and
resilience plans
Monitoring report & brochure Dedicated website Statistics Explained

18. Thank you
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