Vishal Prasad

Vishal Prasad is a Fijian climate justice advocate and Director of the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC), the student-led network behind the campaign to seek an International Court of Justice advisory opinion on climate change. Joining the campaign in 2019, he became one of its key strategic minds—helping craft the roadmap from a Pacific classroom idea to a global legal movement, coordinating coalition outreach, and ensuring frontline testimonies anchored the case for climate justice. In July 2025, the ICJ delivered its landmark Advisory Opinion on the “Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change,” widely welcomed globally as a major win and a new baseline for climate accountability. For this, PISFCC recently received the Right Livelihood Award and the UN Champions of the Earth Award. Vishal now works on turning the Opinion into practical leverage for policy, diplomacy, and justice.