 I will briefly present contents of the Sustainable Development in the Mediterranean report and this is the second edition of this report that I had the opportunity to write together with co-authors on behalf of the S&M Mediterranean that is hosted by the Santa Chiara Lab at the University of Siena. The report is based on results from the Sustainable Development Report 2020 the World Edition. We took most of the indicators and dashboards from this report but also we provided additional information regarding the dynamics within such a complex and complicated environment. The Mediterranean region is a complex environment including 24 countries that of course share one one common seed but at the same time they belong three different continents and also there are many differences in terms of economy, society, culture, environment. Also you know that the Mediterranean region is the most sensible region in the world to climate change after the Arctic and this can also provide additional problems. Based on the observations made through the indicators we could anyhow highlight or identify four macro areas not based on political reasons but just on a sort of homogeneous behaviors that are Europe West, Europe East, Middle East and North Africa and that will help us to support our storytelling throughout the entire report. I will show you this picture this is the dashboard concerning the SDGs in the Mediterranean countries. First of all I will say that the general SDG index of the Mediterranean is 73.5. This value means that the Mediterranean region is at 73 percent in the way towards the SDGs and as you can see in the picture I will not go into details but if you look at the picture at the glance you will see that there are just a few green lights and most of the lights are yellow, orange and red. This means that there is still much to do to achieve the SDGs in the Mediterranean and also if we check the trends in the SDG index you can see that there are a few green arrows that means positive trends and many stagnant or even decreasing trends. Based on the observation of the results on the analysis we could highlight a few hotspots concerning the Mediterranean region. We can say that considering the average incomes per family almost 50 million people in the Mediterranean are at risk of poverty including 27 million Europeans. Women rights and opportunities for women emancipation must be improved. If we consider rates of participation in the labour force well this is quite low but also it's even lower the participation of women in political activities down to 18 percent in the Middle East and North Africa and also women in leading positions I mean in a position of top managers in private companies and enterprises is less than 5 percent. The job market is stagnant the unemployment rate in general in the Mediterranean is around 11 percent. Also the number of needs is increasing there are many young people that are not in training and are not looking for a job and this this is quite alarming this is almost 20 percent of youths in the Mediterranean. Also food habits are going in a wrong direction we are in the place of the Mediterranean diet but the obesity affects 26 percent of the Mediterranean population up to 35 percent in some countries of the Middle East and sustainable agriculture is really an important goal to achieve considering that most of the agricultural practices in the Mediterranean are based on intensive agriculture. Water management is also an issue especially considering the sensitivity to climate change some countries in North Africa and the Middle East are going towards a condition of water scarcity that is less than 500 cubic meters per capita and we should avoid this situation of course. Water quality is also a problem considering that less than 50 percent of water used in the Mediterranean is released into the environment without any treatment and air quality can be a problem considering that 70 percent of the Mediterranean population live in cities and is exposed to pollution of course. In terms of sustainable energy the European trends are very good of course but we should improve these trends also in the other Mediterranean countries as well as investments in research and innovation. Fisheries is based on unsustainable practices aquaculture can be an opportunity to manage the fish stock in a sustainable way if we are managed of course and environmental protection is as well quite important both in lands and marine areas. Well we structured the report on the six transformation frameworks suggested by Jeffrey Sachs in the previous report but also in a famous paper published on the scientific journal Nature. The six transformations framework is just an operative frame the idea was to make it easier to implement concrete actions towards the achievement of the SDGs and what we did was to identify six centers of excellence in the Mediterranean with the high expertise in some specific topics in order to let them cooperate to achieve this transformation. There is one center one Mediterranean hub per each transformation and the report was used to start this cooperation and that will keep going in the next future even more intense. About these transformations the report is structured based on this framework and there is one chapter there is transformation and the transformation are described based on the results of the indicators that are related to different goals of course but in particular we could highlight and visualize specific challenges per each transformation that we have to face in the next future. So you will find per each transformation around 10 main challenges that we have to urgently manage in the next future and the transformations education and gender inequality health well-being and demography energy decarbonization and sustainable industry. I will show you for example in the transformation for sustainable food land water and oceans for this transformation the SDGs Mediterranean is in charge I will just give you a short example in terms of food habits for example this is one of the challenges we highlighted the reference indicators are the prevalence of obesity and the consumption of food the diets that are used in the Mediterranean in terms of sustainable agriculture we deal the food the self-sufficiency of countries and the release of nutrients into the environment in terms of water management and water quality for example we consider the rate of renewability of water resources but also accessibility to water services and water treatment in terms of environmental protection we consider the enlargement and enforcement of protected area in the Mediterranean so this is an example of how we structured the the report and the kind of information that you will find in in the report the transformation five is about sustainable cities and community the transformation on digital revolution has much to do with all the other transformations of course the last part of the report is about the concrete actions that we wanted to suggest through a sort of roadmap including 150 let's say policies but we also can call them recommendations these recommendations are classified into different categories for example governments and public authorities can operate to to release new regulations and protocols as well as new practices of governance in this case for example we deal with sector up planning let's think to the urban planning for the carbonization or programs for waste management and racist management for for mobility sustainable mobility or or biodiversity also governments are very important to promote incentive schemes to promote innovation towards sustainability but also in this case companies and private enterprises play an important role for example public play private initiatives are desirable to improve innovation in this sense then educational programs are very important knowledge not only address to to young students but also in terms of knowledge transfer to enterprises and practitioners that have to change their mission towards sustainability as a leverage for market stakeholders engagement is important for for the the the role can be played by by the scientific community digital transformation is important as well as market that can be driven by the consumers and and their choices international partnership is very very important of course and we are looking for a not a gradual progress but transformations and the goal the final goal is as said in the forward of the report to finally close the gap between rhetoric and action I'm very proud of this outstanding scholarship and thank you very much for your attention