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Sweden's Minister for the Environment and Climate Isabella Lövin will be attending the Children’s Climate Prize 2020
On 12 November, this year's Children’s Climate Prize will be recorded “live on tape”, and it has now been confirmed that Sweden's Minister for the Environment and Climate and Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lövin will be present during the recording and participating in the broadcast. On 18 November at 10am and 7pm CET, the digital event will be broadcast globally.
This year's event will be the fifth edition of the Children's Climate Prize - one of the world's largest international climate awards for young innovators. The focus of this year’s digital event will be to shine the spotlight on the winners of the Children’s Climate Prize 2020, Vinisha Umashankar and Aadya Joshi, and their impressive sustainability projects. During the broadcast, they will both receive their diplomas, medals, and SEK 100,000 from the Children's Climate Foundation to continue developing their projects. Isabella Lövin, Swedish Minister for the Environment and Climate and Deputy Prime Minister, will be attending the digital event. She will be congratulating this year's young prizewinners and take part in discussions during the broadcast.
– This year's winners impress with knowledge, creativity and innovation. They present two concrete solutions that have the potential to make a real difference in halting climate change and the loss of biodiversity. It is inspiring and hopeful, says the Minister of the Environment and Climate, Isabella Lövin.
Vice chair of the Swedish Climate Policy Council, Johan Kuylenstierna, will also take part in the broadcast in his role as the chairman of the jury, Sam Barratt from UNEP and Melati Wijsen are also on the broadcast as jury's representatives. During the broadcast, the audience will get to know this year's winners through interviews and reports from their homeland of India, and there will also be visits to previous prizewinners in Tanzania, the USA and India. Optimism, faith in the future and good news will strongly feature in the broadcast, which will be based on a young perspective and have a focus on global sustainable development.
The Children's Climate Prize digital event will be shown on 18 November at 10am and 7pm CET, to enable an international audience. Everyone will be able to watch the broadcast at www.ccprize.org.
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The Children’s Climate Prize is an international prize annually awarded to children who have made extraordinary efforts for the climate and environment. The winners of the prize are celebrated at a gala event in November in Stockholm, Sweden. They receive a diploma, medal and prize money of SEK 100,000 to continue developing their projects. The prize is founded by Telge Energi, the Swedish frontrunner in renewable energy, and it is they, in partnership with Blueair, a world-leader in air purification, that are behind the award.
