Decision Criteria & Climate Strategy
We define what a project will be held to: science-aligned targets, decision criteria and KPIs — before design begins. The other three stations exist to serve this one.
Decision frameworks for climate-responsive development · Hamburg
Environmental decisions,
Environmental decisions,
made on evidence — not estimates.
Most climate decisions are made before environmental performance is ever defined. Criterra defines the criteria first, designs to meet them, and instruments the site to prove they are met — for municipalities, developers and infrastructure owners.
What we do
Four stations, one method — from criteria to proof.
For municipalities, developers and infrastructure owners. Engage a single station or the full line — every output is designed to be measured, audited and defended.
Nature-based & Landscape Systems
Green infrastructure, water, soil and biodiversity designed to perform — the environmental side treated as engineered systems, not decoration.
Sensing, Monitoring & Evidence
We instrument the site: sensing and monitoring turn environmental performance into continuous, verifiable evidence. Measurement serves the criteria — it is never the product.
Assessment & Reporting
Feasibility studies, EU Taxonomy alignment and ESG reporting built on real measurements — documentation that holds up under external scrutiny.
The method
We treat climate performance as a decision problem — defined, compared, built and verified, in that order.
01 / DEFINE
Set the criteria
Translate ambition and regulation into a small set of measurable, defensible thresholds specific to the site and its climate risk.
02 / COMPARE
Weigh the scenarios
Model the credible options against the criteria before capital is committed, so the choice of what to build rests on evidence, not preference.
03 / BUILD
Design & Instrument
Shape the landscape and technical interventions, then wire in the sensing needed to know — continuously — whether they perform.
04 / VERIFY
Measure & Report
Close the loop with evidence that proves the criteria were met, packaged for taxonomy, ESG and stakeholder review.
The practice
Two disciplines, one practice.
Climate delivery fails in the gap between the people who design the environment and the people who measure it. Criterra was founded to close it.
DISCIPLINE / A
Environment & Landscape
Landscape architecture and environmental design — how a site holds water, carbon, heat and life, and how to shape it so the numbers move in the right direction.
DISCIPLINE / B
Sensing, Data & Evidence
Embedded sensing, monitoring and analytics — the instrumentation that turns a green intervention into evidence you can put in front of a regulator or investor.
Start here
Tell us about your site.
Whatever the scale — from a complex of buildings to a whole region — a few lines on each of these are enough:
- The site — what it is and where it stands.
- The ground today — what covers it and who uses it.
- The pressure — what concerns you: heat, water, energy, biodiversity, reporting.
- The decision — what you need to decide, approve or prove, and any ideas already on the table.
- The stage — concept, feasibility, design or already built, with timeframe and budget if known.