Today LifeGate turns twenty, but due to the coronavirus pandemic and restrictions on movement we cannot celebrate as we would have wished.

It is nonetheless an occasion to publicly thank the community of five million people and the five thousand partner companies that faithfully accompany us on this long journey in sustainability. And to share our manifesto.

For many, sustainability is becoming an urgent necessity; for others it is above all an obligation. It often becomes an accessory to show off, sometimes a pass, at other times a mere social credential.

For us, environmental and human sustainability represents an authentic way of life. It defines our way of being in and with the world — an attitude centred on the civilisation of awareness and on the concreteness of doing.

For 20 years, we have worked to be catalysts for social change, to awaken and nurture a new ecological consciousness, to inspire and spread new business models and new consumption models for people and companies.

We are the place where education becomes determination, feeling becomes action, purpose becomes solution and result. We stand for those who choose to be guided by the values of ethics, in full respect for the ecosystem and all the living forms within it. We stand for those who decide to live with feeling and give a purpose to their lives, acting to make the world a better place.

A thank-you to those who have always stood alongside LifeGate

"Sustainability connects one's own value system with that of others and with what surrounds us. We thank all the people and businesses who have made it possible to bring this idea to life and help it grow, with a spirit of sharing and hope, so as to build a better future together with us," commented LifeGate group Chief Executive Officer Enea Roveda. "This difficult moment has forced us to stop — as individuals and as a country — to reflect on the futility of so many things we considered essential, and I believe it will be the spark that saves all of humanity, or at least that is what I hope and what I tell myself every day."

Thank you, to each and every one of you.