Vidyut Mohan

Vidyut Mohan, born 1991, is an Indian social entrepreneur who co-founded Takachar, a company that recycles agricultural waste into marketable carbon products, offering an alternative to the heavily polluting practice of burning agricultural byproducts. His work centers on a portable torrefaction machine that converts materials such as grain husks and straw into biofuels, fertilizers and chemicals, and by 2020 his company had converted 3,000 tons of biomass waste that would otherwise have been burned. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2019 and recognized as a Young Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2020, and in 2021 Takachar received the Earthshot Prize in the Clean Our Air category, a one million pound award presented by the UK's Prince William for innovators combating climate change.