This strategy is focused on the global context in which Nordic businesses operate, invest, produce and trade. We face a range of common global challenges in the years to come that may be linked under the umbrella of sustainable growth. These include the need for renewed growth in the wake of economic crisis, increased global competition, climate change, environmental degradation, a constrained labour market, an ageing society, and the adverse impacts these developments may have on people, communities, society, the environment and future generations.