This issue begins with a transcribed speech given by Hans Bruyninckx Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA) to the European Evaluation Society’s online conference held in October 2021. We have published many articles now on the challenges for evaluators as a result of the environmental, sustainability and climate-related crises humanity faces. A call by the Executive Director of the EEA for the evaluation community to make ‘impactful contributions in times of urgency’ reinforces the strong message of this stream of articles, including the collective reflections of many leading evaluators following COP 26 published in issue 28 (1). More hopefully, Bruyninckx also highlights some of the practical actions that the European Union (EU) policymakers are planning and discussing – and even starting to implement – within the framework of the European Green Deal. The war in Ukraine gives these thoughts about the need for systemic change and for just transitions towards sustainability added urgency.

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本期以欧洲环境署 (EEA) 执行主任 Hans Bruyninckx 在 2021 年 10 月举行的欧洲评估协会在线会议上发表的讲话录音开始。我们现在发表了许多文章，介绍了环境问题对评估人员带来的挑战。 、可持续性和人类面临的气候相关危机。EEA 执行主任呼吁评估界“在紧急时刻做出有影响力的贡献”，这强化了这一系列文章的强烈信息，包括在第28 期发表的 COP 26 之后许多主要评估者的集体反思（1 ）。更有希望的是，Bruyninckx 还强调了欧盟 (EU) 政策制定者正在欧洲绿色协议框架内计划和讨论甚至开始实施的一些实际行动。乌克兰的战争使这些想法变得更加紧迫，即系统性变革的必要性和向可持续性的公正过渡增加了紧迫性。