Frontiers Planet Prize 2025
Friday 25 April 2025
Two papers by three researchers affiliated with the Global School of Sustainability at LSE have won prestigious awards in this year’s Frontiers Planet Prize competition.
The Frontiers Planet Prize is a global competition for scientists and research institutions to propose solutions to help the planet remain within the safe operating space of our Earth’s system. Winners are selected by 100 independent experts and renowned sustainability and planetary health leaders.
Professor Elizabeth Robinson, Acting Dean of the Global School of Sustainability at LSE, is a co-author on the paper “The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms”, published by The Lancet.
Frank Venmans, Associate Professorial Research Fellow, and Ben Groom, Visiting Professor, both at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, are co-authors on the paper, "Accounting for the increasing benefits from scarce ecosystems”, published by the journal Science.
Professor Elizabeth Robinson said of the awards, "I am delighted that sustainability research from LSE features so prominently in the Frontiers Planet Prize 2025. This achievement recognises the ambition of the Global School of Sustainability at LSE to shape a sustainable world through collaborative and interdisciplinary action."
The Frontiers Planet Prize Award Ceremony will take place on 17 June 2025 at the Villars Symposium in Villar-sur-Ollon, Switzerland.