The Europe Regional Committee of the United Nations Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management: Europe (UN-GGIM: Europe) is one of the five regional committees of the global UN-GGIM.The aim of UN-GGIM: Europe is to contribute to the more effective management and availability of geospatial information in Europe, aligning to the global UN-GGIM programme as approved annually by the Committee of Experts. Building on the overarching vision of UN-GGIM of positioning geospatial information to effectively address global challenges, the mission of UN-GGIM: Europe is to maximise, the use of geospatial information in Europe for a safer and more sustainable world. UN-GGIM: Europe ExCom considers that the three main strategic pillars of Sharing Knowledge, Raising Awareness and Strategic Leadership form a helpful strategic framework around which the regional Committee is informed to contribute to a decade of action, in respect of climate change and other major challenges that lie behind the UN's Sustainable Development Goals under the motto leaving no one behind.