Anoka Abeyrathne achieved all of this within the tender age of 20 years. It is sheer dedication and commitment to protecting the environment and mitigating climate change that brought her to this level. She firmly believes that excellence is never an accident.
The nominee is currently involved in climate change mitigation and adaptation through Mangrove replantation and conservation and also in the promotion of solar powered LED fishing lamps. The solar powered LED lamps were introduced to the fishermen at Bolgoda Lake to be used as an alternative for the traditional kerosene lamps used for night fishing. The new solar powered lamp stops the release of more than 1836 metric tons of Carbon Dioxide per year at the rate of 3.14Kg per 1.2L of kerosene being burnt. Thus the nominee promotes the lamps for the EMACE Foundation of Sri Lanka for which she works on voluntary basis.
The nominee has also replanted Mangroves in the Alubomulla and Indibedda of Sri Lanka, where much destruction has been caused to the Mangrove habitat due to commercial constructions and non-awareness. Thus the nominee held school awareness programmes and made a network of school environmental clubs in order to promote the awareness through various competitions.
The nominee has the exceptional achievement of having represented Sri Lanka at the age of 15 years, and has continuously been representing her work and her motherland in various forums, conferences and summits. 
As Sri Lankan representative to the Climate Finance Forum in China 2010, she will be playing a major role in the formulation of policy and in the declaration made at the end of the forum to address climate change and presented to world policy-makers.
Anoka is also an award winning musician, poet, writer and athlete who promoted a green sports concept in school meets. Further she and her friends supported 6 schools in rural areas by provided clean drinking water and books.

Anoka Abeyrathne has been working with Mangroves and underprivileged communities for more than 4 years. She was devastated to see the destruction caused to the Mangrove ecosystem especially after the Tsunami when she had learnt that Mangroves had the ability to reduce the impact of natural disasters, as places with Mangroves had felt very little impact of the killer waves. Thus being a biology student, she volunteered with the EMACE Foundation of Sri Lanka in order to stop the destruction to the Mangrove eco-system of the Bolgoda Lake of Sri Lanka.

Anoka is also in close collaboration with the British Council from which she has been helped financially and technically.