The EfD Policy Impact Award was presented for the fourth time at the EfD Annual Meeting in Dar es Salaam in October 2025.

It was presented by Dr. Claudine Uwera, Senior Strategic Advisor to the Office of the Prime Minister, Rwanda, and a member of the evaluation committee, and EfD Policy Engagement Director Daniel Slunge, to two runners-up who received a certificate of excellence and one winner.

Winners of the EfD Policy Impact Award were Bing Zhang, Liu Mengdi, and Jintao Xu for Corporate environmental information disclosure and public participation in China. 

Excerpt from the motivation: They receive the award for their pioneering research on corporate environmental information disclosure and its impact on governance in China.

The runners-up who received certificates of excellence were: Le Thanh Loan, Tran Duc Luan, and Phung Ngoc Trieu for their work Bridging research and policy for climate-smart rice farming: Laser land leveling in Vietnam and Martin Visser and Jane Turpie for Natural capital accounting for enhanced environmental-economic decision-making in South Africa.