欧洲经委会通过努力促进经济发展，推动开展更密切的合作以及改善欧洲大陆人口的生活条件。不过，为了确保有效支持成员国执行《2030 年可持续发展议程》，这个已成立 71 年的组织必须接受变革。《2030 年议程》的全球性需要紧密的国际合作和伙伴关系，这是欧洲经委会工作的核心，迫使我们重新思考活动重点和工作方法。除了要使欧洲经委会的工作方案与可持续发展目标保持一致外，我启动了一项综合工作，以加强欧洲经委会工作的影响，并确保欧洲经委会胜任使命，即应对 2030 年前本区域新出现的需求、发展挑战和机遇。这包括但不限于扩大与 18 000 多名专家组成的网络的合作，促进加强内部协同增效作用，以及与整个区域的利益攸关方建立更加密切的伙伴关系及合作，以开展切实可行的全球公益活动。
Through its efforts to promote economic development, ECE contributes to closer cooperation and to improving the living conditions of the population on the continent. However, to ensure effective support for member States in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, our 71-year-old organization must embrace change. The global scale of the 2030 Agenda requires intensive international cooperation and partnership, which is at the centre of ECE work, prompting us to rethink the focus of our activities and working methods. Going beyond aligning the ECE programme of work with the Sustainable Development Goals, I have launched a comprehensive exercise to enhance the impact of our work and to ensure that ECE is fit for the purpose of responding to emerging needs, development challenges and opportunities in the region through 2030. This includes but is not limited to expanding cooperation with our network of over 18,000 experts, fostering greater internal synergies and building closer partnerships and collaboration with stakeholders across the region to produce practical global public goods.