Environmental activist
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action to mitigate the effects of human-caused climate change.
In summer 2018, aged 15, Greta held the first “School Strike for Climate” outside the Swedish parliament. The protest was widely covered, and hundreds of thousands of young people across the world joined her Fridays For Future strikes. Her role in raising awareness of climate change, especially amongst young people has been called ‘the Greta effect’
Between 2019 and 2020, she took a year out of school to concentrate on activism and became famous for her impassioned speeches to world leaders.
In April 2019, aged 16, Greta warned the European Parliament: “Our house is falling apart, and five months later, she sailed by yacht across the Atlantic to address a UN climate action summit in New York.
Greta has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year between 2019 and 2023. In 2019, she became the youngest-ever Time Person of the Year. Also in 2019, she won the Right Livelihood Award (known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) and Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award and was listed by Forbes as one of the world’s 100 most powerful women.
The magazine, New Scientist, described the impact made by Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion with the headline: “The year the world woke up to climate change.”
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