2018 年初，欧洲经委会发表了世界银行全球跟踪框架关于在落实可持续发展目标 7 方面所取得进展的报告中有关该区域的一章。该报告称，世界能源系统没有达到商定的具体目标，需要采取紧急行动来实现这项目标。这一结论在欧洲经委会区域也有效。能源系统主要建立在化石能源基础上的国家面临社会、经济和环境方面的多重挑战，各国如果要履行其在《2030 年议程》和《联合国气候变化框架公约》下的《巴黎协定》中作出的承诺，就必须平衡这些挑战。欧洲经委会的可持续能源委员会在 2017 年和 2018 年就该区域未实现目标 7 的问题举行了政策对话，导致就各国可采取何种有效行动来执行《2030 年议程》提出了一套均衡的备选方案。特别是，各国需要减少能源的环境足迹，改造能源部门以支持绿色经济，并据此调整本国自然资源管理办法。
Early in 2018, ECE published a regional chapter of the World Bank’s Global Tracking Framework reporting on progress on the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 7. It reported that the world ’s energy system was not meeting agreed targets and that urgent action was needed to achieve the Goal. That conclusion is also valid in the ECE region. Countries with energy systems based primarily on fossil energy face multiple social, economic and environmental challenges that must be balanced if countries are to meet their commitments under the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Policy dialogues held by the ECE Committee on Sustainable Energy in 2017 and 2018 regarding the non -attainment of Goal 7 in the region led to the proposal of a balanced set of options on what countries could do effectively to implement the 2030 Agenda. In particular, they need to reduce the environmental footprint of energy, transform the energy sector to support a green economy and adapt accordingly the management of their national natural resources.