The World Around announced this years recipients of the Young Climate Prize, a biannual award program with mentoring for designers, activists, and innovation-minded strivers under the age of 25. A jury made up of global leaders in design, architecture, and the arts selected four winners from a cohort of 25 finalists. The winners are Mohamed Salem Mohamed Ali, 23, Algeria; Kenneth Uche, 24, Nigeria; Amara Nwuneli, 17, Nigeria; and Dayana Blanco Quiroga, 25, Bolivia. The projects submitted include a farm addressing food insecurity in a desert refugee community; a stove that reduces indoor air pollution while generating power for lighting; a youth movement that mobilizes climate action through the development of a community park; and a conservation initiative that uses indigenous environmental knowledge to restore a polluted wetland reserve.Each awardee will receive a $5,000 cash prize and airfare and accommodations for a trip to New York City in April for the Young Climate Prize awards ceremony. The event will take place at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) during the World Around Summit 2025, an all-day program built around the theme Architectures Now, Near, and Next.On April 27 at MoMA, the Young Climate Prize winners will present their projects alongside distinguished architects and designers devoted to exploring environmental issues in design. The programs partner is MoMAs Emilio Abasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment.Mohamed Salem Mohamed Ali was awarded the Young Climate Visionary award, for work on alternative approaches to desert agriculture. (Gasem Mohamed Ali)Beatrice Galilee, founder and executive director of The World Around, recently explained the New Yorkbased nonprofit organizations mission at a gathering in Midtown Manhattan. She founded the organization and developed the Young Climate Prize to identify and empower young people around the world to engage with architectural and design solutions to environmental problems related to climate change.During the meeting, which included remarks from Ben Watson, chief creative and product officer from MillerKnoll, and a member of the jury of architecture, design, and arts leaders who selected the winners, Galilee shared stories of submissions from around the worldand the hope that the young applicants projected. The winners chosen reflect this optimism. Mohamed Salem Mohamed Ali, the 23-year-old awarded the Young Climate Visionary award, is a farmer and artist who is testing alternative approaches to desert agriculture. He works with sandponic and hydroponic systems to grow food for his Sahrawi refugee community; he produced a film, The Nomad Garden, to encourage his fellow refugees to cultivate their own crops.The Young Climate Designer award went to Kenneth Uche, who is trying to solve for indoor air pollution in his native Nigeria, where 98,000 women die annually due to using firewood indoors to cook for their families. Uche has developed a smokeless alternative for cooking, which also avoids contributing to Nigerias deforestation.Kenneth Uche won the Young Climate Designer award for the project Smokeless Briqs ( Kenneth Uche)The 17-year-old awarded the Young Climate Voice award, Amara Nwuneli, is an activist and storyteller whose group, Preserve Our Roots, fights for climate justice. The initiative has transformed an underutilized plot of land in a low-income Lagos neighborhood into a park, which will eventually serve as a hub for climate education, activism, and recreation.A fourth award, the Jury Prize, went to Dayana Blanco Quiroga, 25, an Indigenous woman whose inspiring work involves cleaning up a severely polluted lake in the Bolivian Andes. She and her team have adapted the ecological knowledge of ancestors to test current-day solutions, such as using collected plastic waste to build rafts for totoras, a native plant that absorbs heavy metals. The conservation efforts have already reduced contaminated levels in the Uru Uru Lake by up to the 30 percent.Preserve Our Roots transformed an underutilized plot of land in a low-income Lagos neighborhood into a park. ( Amara Nwuneli)The jury for the second cycle of the Young Climate Prize included MillerKnolls Ben Watson and design, architecture, and arts luminaries including Sheikha Reem-Al Thani, Aric Chen, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Elizabeth Diller, Lady Elena Ochoa Foster, Tosin Oshinowo, and Zo Ryan.The World Around engages with the architecture, arts, and design communities throughout the year, such as in the Love & Design Competition installation in Times Square, currently on view and covered in AN, designed by Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio, a New York Citybased practice. The organization maintains an active YouTube channel as well, featuring videos and short films about architecture, design, and Young Climate Stories, showcasing the work and passion of the Young Climate Prize cohorts.