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2024 Laureate

Frank Biermann

For defining new pathways for international environmental governance in a period of global change.

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Sustainability governance in focus at the 35th anniversary of the Volvo Environment Prize

Frank Biermann, a Professor of Sustainability Governance at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, received the 2024 award at the prize event in Stockholm on Oct. 15. The Swedish Minister for Climate and Environment, Romina Pourmokhtari, handed it to him.

Frank Biermann is the first political scientist to receive the award. He founded the Earth System Governance Project, a transdisciplinary research network of sustainability scholars that develop better governance solutions.

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Rewarding Pathbreaking Science

The International Prize Jury

The 2024 prize was celebrated at the 35th Anniversary of the award

The 2024 award ceremony coincided with the 35th Anniversary of the Volvo Environment Prize. The event featured discussions with the 2024 laureate, Professor Frank Biermann, on his research on sustainability governance and with Jury members Professor Johan Rockström and Martin Lundstedt, Volvo Group President and CEO, on future challenges in a fast-changing world. Niklas Gustafsson, Secretary of the Volvo Environment Prize Foundation, moderated the event. The event featured a cavalcade of world events and previous laureates in retrospect since the first award in 1990, as well as musical entertainment.

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The recent laureates

2023

Eduardo Brondizio

For world leading research in complex systems thinking, which is embedded in an ethnographic approach.

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2022

Richard Thompson, Tamara Galloway, Penelope Lindeque

For ground breaking research that has been instrumental in providing societal awareness of plastic pollution as an emerging global challenge.

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2021
Yale University

Paul Anastas

For pioneering work in ”green chemistry”, a systems approach to sustainability that tackles pollution problems at their source.

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What is the Volvo Environment Prize?

The Volvo Environment Prize aims to recognize and support outstanding scientific achievements that contribute significantly to environmental stewardship and sustainability.

Who awards the Volvo Environment Prize?

The Volvo Environment Prize is awarded by an Independent Foundation. The Secretariate of the prize is hosted at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, an international research institute for global sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden.

The process for the selection of the laureate involves a call for nominations, a screening process by a Scientific Committee, and then the successful candidate is chosen by an international Prize Jury.

The Foundation’s work is financed by the Volvo Group, a leading manufacturer of vehicles and heavy-duty machines. The Group is committed to sustainability in its entire value chain. Environmental issues and sustainable development have been part of Volvo Group’s core values since the 1980s.

What are the criteria for the award?

Scientific excellence and contributions to decision making and policy are the most important criteria. The candidate must have an outstanding research and publication record with emphasis on impact.

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Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics,
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Box 50005, 104 05 Stockholm,
Sweden

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