to respond to the pandemic, to seek international peace and security, to galvanise climate action, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in this Decade of Action, to ensure the centrality of human rights, to promote gender equality, and to deal with the challenges of digital transformation.

There is an urgent need to reach our common goals on the environment, climate change and renewable energy.27.The COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow later this year will be an important milestone.

The pandemic is also an opportunity to build a better worldandpromote economic and social recovery that generates sustainable, green, inclusive, and resilient societies adapted to technological and digital transformations.

Lithuania has earlier used its chances for early digital transformation, with advances in modern information and communication infrastructure jumpstarting a fast growth of digital economy. We intend to do the same with green transformation.