The Ramboll Foundation Award
The Ramboll Foundation Award is awarded to a young scientist whose work represents extraordinary contributions to sustainable development in a particular field of research. The award is given to an individual scientist with university affiliation. Institutions or projects are excluded, as are Ramboll’s own employees.
The subject of the 2024 award was “environmental justice”.
Promoting equitable environmental justice
Climate change burdens and vulnerabilities are reaching unprecedented levels with increasing climate extremes including heatwaves, heavy precipitation, droughts, and tropical cyclones. Climate change is gendered, and its impact is extremely unequal with girls and women among those impacted excessively.
The Ramboll Foundation therefore called on researchers specialised in the area of environmental justice.
Candidates for the Ramboll Foundation Award are identified by Ramboll experts and invited to submit a proposal. The award decision will be taken by an evaluation committee consisting of representatives from the Ramboll Foundation and Ramboll experts within the subject.
The Ramboll Foundation Award was previously known as the Flemming Bligaard Award, which was named in honour of former Ramboll CEO and chairman of the Ramboll Foundation.
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Søren Staugaard Nielsen
Managing Director, Ramboll Foundation
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Neel Strøbæk
Deputy Chair of the Ramboll Foundation, Former Senior Group Director, Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility, Ramboll Group
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Promoting equitable environmental justice
The 2024 Ramboll Foundation Award has been awarded to Doctor of Law and Senior Lecturer of the University of Malawi, Dr. Ngcimezile Mweso, for her research on environmental justice in carbon sequestration projects in Malawi. Dr. Mweso’s work stands out for integrating social equity into climate action.
Mar 12, 2025
Bridging the gap between biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation
Biologist and Senior Research Associate, Leonardo De Sousa Miranda, of Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, is the winner of the 2023 Ramboll Foundation Award and a prize of EUR 67,000 to support his research in assessing climate and land-use change impacts and identifying priority areas for biodiversity conservation and habitat restoration in the Amazon.
Dec 13, 2023
Cambodia’s leading social psychologist wins EUR 67,000 prize from Ramboll Foundation
Thearom Ret of Royal University of Phnom Penh is the 2022 winner of the Flemming Bligaard Award for his research in mental health in post-conflict cities in south-east Asia.
Dec 7, 2022