Programme

14:30- 14:35 | Welcome introduction

• Brenda King, President of the Sustainable Development Observatory, EESC

14:35 - 15:00 | Presentation of the 2017 Monitoring Report of the SDGs in an EU Context

• Christine Mayer, Eurostat

15:00 - 16:00 | Panel 1 - Measuring EU's progress on Sustainable Development:

• Céline Charveriat, IEEP
• Ingeborg Niestroy, SDG Watch
• Lorena Sorrentino, CSR Europe
• Benjamin Denis, ETUC
• Q&A session - General Debate

16:00 - 17:20 | Panel 2 - Addressing policy gaps – priority areas for EU's action on SDGs:

• MEP Seb Dance, S&P, European Parliament
• Kristi Klaas, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Estonia
• Claudia Hahn, DG Environment, European Commission
• Arnoldas Abramavičius (EPP/LT), Committee of the Regions
• Q&A session - General Debate

17:20 - 17:30 Summary and conclusions

• Brenda King, President of the Sustainable Development Observatory, EESC