Earthshot Prize Archives

Earthshot Prize 2021 finalist Vinisha Umashankar ‘irons’ out a plan to save the Earth

by Charu Thakur | Jan 12, 2022

(January 12, 2022) “We have every reason to be angry. But I have no time for anger. I want to act. I am not just a girl from India. I am a girl from Earth and I am proud to be so,” smiled the pint-sized bespectacled Vinisha Umashankar at the United Nations Climate...

Planting forests, creating shoes from plastic, making glass into sand – these young Indian activists are conservationists with a plan

by Global Indian | Dec 28, 2021

(December 28, 2021) Three years ago, a young Swedish girl made the world stop in its tracks by emphasising the extent of environmental damage in the world. Her fervent plea was to ask if this is the world we were leaving behind for our children. At a UN climate...