Dublin Student Top 3 Finalist For International Children's Peace Prize

DUBLIN, CA — Dublin High School senior Divyansh Agrawal was named a top 3 finalist for the International Children’s Peace Prize, an award won by Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg in the past.

Agrawal, 16, beat out roughly 200 other nominees from 47 countries around the world for his work founding the Junior Philanthropists Foundation, which has helped pass 18 environmental bills in California through mobilizing 10,000 youth across 27 U.S. states. Those initiatives have improved access to clean water for 1.2 million people, protected 35,000 acres of land, and annually reduced hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 emissions, according to competition organizer Kidsrights.

In November 2024, Agrawal represented global youth at COY19 and COP29 in Azerbaijan, a United Nations Climate Conference on Youth. At the conference, he co-drafted the Global Youth Statement, urging leaders from over 160 countries to take decisive climate action. He also gave a speech at the conference that shared strategies on how young people can engage in legislative advocacy, developing educational programs, fostering partnerships, and creating meaningful change.

He is currently co-organizing the UN Youth Climate Conference, fostering collaboration among 1,000 youth leaders, and spearheading the Global Youth Climate Legislature, an international parliament dedicated to drafting youth-driven climate policies.

Agrawal has also created a climate education program now implemented in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that in its first year trained 20,000 students to advocate for sustainability within their communities.

“They gave us a future on fire, we turned it into a movement, and now we’re coming with water, with law, and with unstoppable truth,” Agrawal said in a statement shared with KidsRights.

Agrawal will join the two other finalists Wednesday in Stockholm, Sweden, where the winner will be announced. See here to learn about the two other finalists, who have helped secure a ban on plastic in Europe and advocated for missing children in war zones.

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