Until May 15, young people fighting for the climate and environment can nominate their projects for the international Children’s Climate Prize. The award celebrates entrepreneurs, innovators, changemakers and conservators that bring sustainable solutions for our planet. With one month left until the nomination closes, it's time to submit your entry!
The Grey Water Project was founded by Shreya Ramachandran in 2016 and in 2019 she was the winner of the Children’s Climate Prize. Her work has recently been recognized in a documentary “The Power of Us: Confronting the Climate Crisis” and was also featured in the book "Girl Warriors: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth".
On June 4, this year’s nomination period, which was open since March 10, closed. With contributions received from all parts of the world (except Antarctica), last year’s nomination record was close to being doubled! This year there are 32 countries from which the jury will select finalists and winners of the 2021 Children’s Climate Prize.
Every year, an independent jury selects finalists and winners for the Children’s Climate Prize. The jury consists of a mix of people, all with different expertise and interests in sustainability issues. This year’s jury includes representatives from the United Nations with Sam Barratt.
Between March 10 and June 4, young people around the world who are fighting for the environment and climate can be nominated or nominate themselves for the Children's Climate Prize. This is a reminder that there is now only one month left until this year’s nomination period closes.
Seventeen-year-old Aadya Joshi from Mumbai, India won the Children’s Climate Prize 2020. Her BioPower Index supports landscape architects, gardeners and authorities in sowing the plants that best support biodiversity. Since her win, new opportunities have opened up and Aadya is now looking for more people who want to establish and share knowledge about the importance of planting native.
Fourteen-year-old Vinisha Umashankar, from Tamil Nadu in India, won the Children's Climate Prize 2020. Her solar ironing cart- innovation had an enormous media impact both in her home country India and globally. Vinisha is now developing her project and is taking new sustainability initiatives for the environment and climate.
At the age of 17, Edgar started Green Venture Recycles, a company that normally converts waste plastic to building materials. As the corona virus intensified, they shifted their production to manufacturing visors and face masks for healthcare workers and school employees in Tanzania, Edgar's homeland.
The nomination period for this year’s Children’s Climate Prize is about to end. Nominations of sustainable projects, initiatives and climate-smart inventions can be handed in until September 21. Recognition and prize money of SEK 100,000 is on the table.
The founder of the Children's Climate Prize now forms the Children's Climate Foundation to ensure long-term and continued promotion of children and young people's climate and environmental commitment. Telge Energi instituted the Children’s Climate Prize in 2016 to highlight the perspective of children and young people based on the realization that it is the their future that is at stake.