 Good morning and good afternoon to distinguished speakers and the participants to this event organized for the launch of the 2020 Report on Sustainable Development in the Mediterranean, prepared by SDSM Mediterranean. As many of you probably know, SDSM MED is the original network of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, promoted by the United Nations and led by Geoffrey Sachs from Columbia University to valorize the role of research, innovation, and education to implement Agenda 2030. And we all know, especially in these times, how important competence and knowledge are for our present and our future. It is of great pleasure for me to launch the second edition of the MED Report with the presence of the Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, His Excellency Nasser Kamehre. The Union for the Mediterranean is a pivotal institution for the promotion of cooperation and dialogue in the Mediterranean area and a very active player in several domains such as research, innovation, water, environment, education, employability, energy, and gender issues. In the last few years, I have been working closely with Nasser and UFM in the field of sustainable food systems, and I take this opportunity to thank him for his continued support and his leadership. At this event, I also welcome the presence of Commissioner General for Italy's participation in Expo Dubai 2020, Paulo Guisinti, which confirms the importance of international events of cultural and science diplomacy as an opportunity for promoting more sustainable, resilient, and prosperous Mediterranean societies. I would also like to acknowledge the contribution to the SDSM media activities given by representatives of SDSM national centres, and in particular, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Turkey, and the presence here today with us of the UNEP MEP representative who will enrich the debate about the report. I am sure that we all share the view that collaboration is key to tackle the environmental, healthy, and social challenges in front of our countries in terms of climate change, well-being, excessive exploitation of natural resources, high unemployment, social and gender inequalities, incorrect dietary habits, and in these difficult times, more than ever, we realise that Agenda 2030 is the most effective framework within which to cooperate and build back better. We need to accelerate the implementation of Agenda 2030, and in order to accelerate such implementation, transformation is a key concept. We need radical changes. We need to transform our social, job, education, food, environmental, energy systems. And precisely on this concept, on the concept of transformation, we have prepared our report. SDSM media is very keen on promoting transformations, acting as a social policy interface in favour of institutions, decision makers, businesses, and civil society. And proposing in this report not only analysis, which is very important, and we will hear from Ricardo Pucelli, which are the results of our analysis, but Ricardo also will mention policies and actions to achieve the SDGs. We need to be concrete. We need to propose actions. We need to promote actions. I conclude to say how honoured I am to pursue such endeavour in collaboration with Professor Geoffrey Sachs, which has inspired Agenda 2030 and will conclude our debate today. Thank you very much, Sachs, for your leadership and vision. Before giving the floor back, I would like to thank Ricardo Pucelli, Simone Cristi, Massimo Gliotti, Guido Berlini, Stefano Toraldi, Barbara Di Paolo, and all the staff of Santa Clara Lab for their contributions to the report. I thank Ricardo for his effective presentation, the representatives of SDSM for their remarks. We will take notice of it. But also our friends from UFM, for the Mediterranean, I think that it's very important, this cooperation between SDSM-Med, SDSM in general, and UFM. I know that Geoffrey really shared this view, and he's very positive in this link between SDSM and UFM, and I think we will be able, with this cooperation, to promote transformations and changes that are needed in the Mediterranean. I also thank UNEP MEP for their remarks, and I'm sure that the cooperation with them also will be effective. Just a few seconds to answer to Geoffrey. I completely agree that we should work in order to make initiatives by Europe, considering also the Mediterranean area, because challenges do not know borders. We should convince Europe that the European Green Deal or initiatives related to sustainability should also have an African and Mediterranean scope, because if there are problems, a few kilometers from France, they will affect also France or Italy or Spain, all of them. So I think this is a very important point. The second point is that, as you said, we need to involve more and more researchers and civil society from the south and the east. So this year, it was the first year that the report was made according to the HABS idea, to have six HABS for the six transformations, but the next step will be to associate to each HAB also one institution from the south and the east. So to have, for each transformation, two research innovation references, one from the north and one from the south. So this is an example of the principle of equal footing, which is very, very important to promote sustainability. So UFM is a clear example of the principle of equal footing, and we want to go ahead according to this line, because only together we can make it. So I would like to stop here. Thanks a lot, Jeffrey, for your inspiration and for your leadership. We are very pleased to contribute to the SDSM network initiatives, and we look forward to the next event and the next activity. Thank you very much indeed.