Featured insights
Featured insights
| September 11, 2025
Criticality assessment: 4 steps to building resilience
To lay a proper foundation and build resilience, critical entities across Europe would soon need to master the criticality assessment. Our experts explain how criticality is different from risk and point to four steps to be better prepared for CER.
| September 4, 2025
Design as water
Ramboll Water and Henning Larsen recently joined forces to explore a new paradigm where water is treated as a stakeholder within the design process. We caught up with Trine Stausgaard Munk, Head of Sustainability at Ramboll Water, to understand how this thought-provoking publication came about.
| September 2, 2025
The city of the future demands a bold new approach
Urban design is where energy, mobility, and people meet, and where bold decisions can unlock national-scale change. Copenhagen’s Fælledby development demonstrates how ambitious planning today can create the resilient cities of tomorrow.
| August 3, 2025
Lord Howe Island: endangered species thrive after rodent eradication programme
Lying 400 miles from New South Wales, Australia, the World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island was plagued by invasive rodents. Ramboll promoted biodiversity conservation supporting with community risk assessment and engagement an eradication programme that led to the recovery of endangered species.
| July 21, 2025
The importance of lifecycle costs in urban planning decisions
Urban planning and infrastructure projects need to account for lifecycle costs, including maintenance expenses and associated emissions over the full lifespan of the infrastructure, which can extend beyond 100 years. How design solutions influence these long-term and recurring costs and emissions is crucial and must be carefully considered.
| July 9, 2025
District heating: The building block to Germany’s energy independence
Germany’s transition to a resilient and decarbonised heat supply comes with a price tag of more than €40 billion. It is a worthwhile investment to enhance the country’s energy independence by swapping imported fossil fuels with district energy systems powered by locally sourced renewables.
| July 2, 2025
The CER Directive: A paradigm shift for resilience
The CER Directive repositions resilience from a reactive security posture to a governance imperative. This article introduces four dimensions of governance innovation to make resilience a proactive, intelligence-led and future-facing capability in key organisations.
| July 2, 2025
The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: Rewiring trade for a low-carbon economy
As reporting requirements take effect and financial obligations begin, companies across the value chain are required to rapidly adapt to a new era of carbon accountability at the border.
| June 30, 2025
Rethinking cities from the ground up, with social wellbeing at the forefront
The urban agenda is complicated by climate disruption, growing inequality, and rapid urbanisation. How do we better embed social wellbeing in the design of urban neighbourhoods? C40 cities and Ramboll explore new avenues with a strategic partnership.
| June 29, 2025
Here’s how ammonia will become a key player in the future energy system
Ammonia is emerging as a key player in the energy transition, offering solutions for decarbonising industries and enabling a scalable hydrogen economy. Learn about its potential, challenges, and strategic implications.
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