The design, evaluation and monitor of actions, plans and policies aimed at improving countries’ progress at both national and international level is a hard task to achieve and requires a variety of tools. Part of the complexity of progress assessment is due to the necessity to measure its economic, social, and environmental aspects. The latest international agreements, such as the European Green Deal, highlight the current need of tools capable of measuring progress for groups of countries avoiding the arbitrariness and loss of information commonly due to aggregation of economic, social, and environmental indicators. Besides this, it is necessary to reconsider the sole use of macroeconomic indicators (e.g., GDP) for measuring progress. These indicators should be flanked by complementary ones, able to capture important environmental and social aspects (e.g., equity, life satisfaction, and responsibilities for negative impacts). Here, we apply an Input-State-Output framework to assess the Environment-Society-Economy relations across European countries in time series (2006–2015) by using two different sets of indicators. Our study presents a synthetic framework that enables coexistence of various information and reveals differences in progress evaluation and monitoring, which result from the use of different indicators. This suggests the current need for policy action tailored to the different situations and needs of different European countries. The possibility to adopt multiple perspectives while performing the analysis is a key feature of this tool. By using two alternative sets of indicators, we produced a more complete picture of countries’ progress. The outputs resulting from such versatile tool may be used for sharing good practices among the European countries, acting on progress across the three dimensions of sustainability, and evaluating the effects of policy efforts.

旨在改善国家在国家和国际层面取得进展的行动、计划和政策的设计、评估和监测是一项艰巨的任务，需要各种工具。进度评估之所以复杂，部分原因在于必须衡量其经济、社会和环境方面。最新的国际协议，例如欧洲绿色协议，强调了当前需要能够衡量国家集团进展的工具，以避免通常由于经济、社会和环境指标的聚合而造成的随意性和信息丢失。除此之外，有必要重新考虑仅使用宏观经济指标（例如，GDP）来衡量进展。这些指标的两侧应该是互补的，能够捕捉重要的环境和社会方面（例如，公平、生活满意度和负面影响的责任）。在这里，我们通过使用两组不同的指标，应用输入-状态-输出框架来评估时间序列（2006-2015）欧洲国家的环境-社会-经济关系。我们的研究提出了一个综合框架，使各种信息能够共存，并揭示了由于使用不同指标而导致的进度评估和监测的差异。这表明当前需要针对不同欧洲国家的不同情况和需求制定政策行动。在执行分析时采用多种观点的可能性是该工具的一个关键特征。通过使用两组替代指标，我们更全面地了解了各国的进展情况。这种多功能工具产生的输出可用于在欧洲国家之间分享良好做法，在可持续发展的三个维度上采取行动，并评估政策努力的效果。