Our society is undergoing a rapid change. Numerous drivers of change interact in a highly complex interplay of human needs, desires, activities and technologies, contributing to‘ the new era of Anthropocen and  'Great Acceleration’ when human consumption and environmental degradation escalets beyond our safe operating space.

We consume more than we can afford, we are overusing planet's resources whitout knowing how our actions could bounce back to us. Some of the proof for this are current multiple crises we have encountered recently, more or less unprepared. Challanges are complex, systemic apearing at many different levels and can 'cut the branch we are sitting on', for example climate change related extreme weather events take our healthy years of living, deminish our past economic investments and call for more economic costs. We extract, use and dump ever more natural resources which puts humanity at risk in an esistential way. 

While we have been trying to implement some coordinated, targeted action for the  long term sustianbility already since 1972 (UN conference on human environment and the Stockholm Declaration recognized human impact on the environment, signifying for the first time in history that environmental issues have been addressed publicly and on a global scale), it remains questionable whether operationalisation at the regional, national and local level is sufficiently effective in coping with the dynamic complexities of European and global trends. Scientific and other organisations at all scales recognised that we need to address systemic nature of the challanges if we want to see progress. 

'We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.'

This requires knowledge and actions that span across policy domains and disciplines, active egagment of all stakholders and using new or modified tools and approaches. Also Albert Einstein indicated:

Majpority of companies are not actively managing sustainability. Most active are energy companies. however, those that do, are reaping benefits for themselves and for society.

Companies are defined as being most engaged with sustainability if their executives say that sustainability is a top-three priority in their CEOs’ agendas, which means that building sustainability competences of CEOs ie the first priority.

(McKinsey Global Survey results: How companies manage sustainability, 2010 )

A sustainability analysis provides an in-depth understanding of your company's current sustainability practices and identifies areas for improvement and develops an action plan.

My basic living functions as a part of sociaty depend on the use of natural resources, water we drink, air we breath, food we eat, shelters we build... My quality of life for better or worse is in many ways dependant on how sociaty function and which actions and cjhoices I take as a part of the sociaty. I want to avoid many existential and benfits related risks we encounter today, for example:

I don't want to die prematurely becouse of the air pollutions (in 2021 the premature deaths attributable to PM_2.5 were 253,000 in the EU as stated by the report of European environment agency in 2023; exposure to air pollution significantly increases the risk of strokes, heart and lung disease, cancer and other ailments, causing more than 6.7 million premature deaths a year globally as stated by UN environment programme 2023),

I don't want to live longer but beining sick,

I need green space for recreation and relaxation,

I don't want to loose all my lifework achievments and money due to natural hazards.

I want security and good life also for my grandchildren. Earth’s life support systems have been so damaged that the planet is “well outside the safe operating space, six out of 9 planetary tipping points beining transgressed (2023)

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We as individuals would like to know why we have ecological food in the shops, how chemicals impact my body and health or what is the risk of flooding for the house I am buying and is there somthing else threthening me?

Governmental and company managers would like to know how to deliver to sustainbility agenda and what to prioritise, while keeping their own bussinesses competitive and accountable.

There are countless possiblities to learn and imporve our knowledge on sustianiblity. In a small segment Aniterra can offer some tailor made and user adapted trainings, for example, a quick crash course on what does it mean term sustianbility, so many times used and also misuesd and disscuss open questions with you. See more in the Training section.

Stakeholders can benefit from a quick and tailored contributions from Aniterra:

• Governments - snapshsots of state of the art in the field of their interest and action, understanding of different stakheholder perspectives, advice and test for strategic directions, links to scietific knowledge....
• Bussineses - established or start ups which want to integrate sustainblity in their bussiness plans and actions
• Research - to better link their work with policymakers and other users
• inidviudals- to better understand sustainability and different concpets around it.