TIME100 Climate 2025 list of leaders driving business climate action lists Ramboll CEO.
Jens-Peter Saul, president and CEO of Ramboll Group, has been included in this year’s TIME100 Climate 2025 list of the most influential global leaders driving business climate action.
Ramboll, a global engineering and consulting firm that specialises in sustainable, climate-resilient urban infrastructure, has helped transform Copenhagen into a ‘sponge city’ by designing a new flood prevention system. Last year, Ramboll partnered with Malaysia’s Sibu City to create Asia’s first city-wide ‘cloudburst masterplan’, which uses elements like rain gardens to prevent flash floods and this year the firm teamed up with C40 Cities to embed climate adaptation into more urban planning.
Commenting on his recognition in the TIME100 Climate 2025 list, Jens-Peter Saul, said: “This is not a recognition for me alone, I believe it belongs to each of our 18,000 employees at Ramboll whose expertise, dedication and passion make it possible to advance our mission every day.
“Ramboll plays a key role in developing and deploying low-carbon solutions at urban scale. From integrating renewable energy into our grids, to reducing the erosion of shorelines with nature-based solutions, the TIME100 Climate 2025 recognition helps shed light on these large-scale yet often-overlooked actions that make our cities more liveable, while mitigating impact on climate.”
Asked by the TIME100 Climate 2025 list about the one sustainability effort he was looking forward to adopting in the next year, Saul mentioned the FIDIC Carbon Management Framework (CMF), launched at the recent FIDIC Global Infrastructure Conference, which was in the process of being driven through FIDIC’s global network of 40,000 engineering companies. The framework considers all stages of a project, focuses on collaboration between all stakeholders in a project and defines four levels of maturity to support those regions in the world that are at the beginning of implementing carbon management.
Saul said: “I am proud to have initiated and mentored this important FIDIC initiative, but without the support from my peers and colleagues this project would have not come to life. I must give special thanks to the late Mike Haigh (MottMacDonald) and the CMF team Maria Manidaki (MottMacDonald), Basma Eissa (FIDIC), Elina Kalliala (Ramboll) and Andreas Linnet (Ramboll). I also want to thank FIDIC past president Catherine Karakatsanis and CEO Susanna Zammataro for supporting the initiative and carrying it forward.”
Ask about what gives him hope for the future of the planet, Saul said: “The people I have the honour of leading at Ramboll inspire me and give me hope. They are engineers, architects, consultants – more than 18,000 employees from diverse backgrounds and expertise – joining forces every day for a shared purpose, which is to design and implement sustainable solutions for society, so people and nature can thrive. Their impact is profound and global.”
The TIME100 Climate 2025 is a list of influential leaders driving business climate action. To identify this year’s changemakers, TIME’s editors spent months vetting names from across various sectors. They valued measurable, scalable achievements over commitments and announcements and favoured more recent action. The result is the third annual TIME100 Climate list of 100 people who represent the power of individuals to make significant progress in influencing the climate economy.
