How a 16-Year-Old Is Leading a Global Climate Movement
For hundreds of thousands of young people around the world, Greta Thunberg is an icon. In August 2018, dismayed by adults’ lack of action on the global climate crisis, the teenager sat herself down in front of the Swedish Parliament, pledging to strike from school every Friday until Sweden aligned its policies with the Paris Agreement. Greta’s actions have earned her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination and speaking engagements at the World Economic Forum and COP24—but most importantly, they’ve encouraged students from all over the globe to stand up for Earth and their futures.
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Post Series: Sweden
- 1.What if we change – Swedish Environmental Technology
- 2.The City That Fell into the Earth
- 3.Why Is Sweden Buying Trash From Other Countries?
- 4.Swedish maternity hospital with no babies – BBC Stories
- 5.Stay-At-Home Fathers In Sweden I The Feed
- 6.How Sweden is turning its waste into gold
- 7.You Are Stealing Our Future: Greta Thunberg, 15, Condemns the World’s Inaction on Climate Change
- 8.School strike for climate – save the world by changing the rules | Greta Thunberg | TEDxStockholm
- 9.‘I want you to panic’: 16-year-old issues climate warning at Davos
- 10.How a 16-Year-Old Is Leading a Global Climate Movement
- 11.The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg
- 12.Greta Thunberg full speech at Extinction Rebellion protest in London
- 13.UK Parliament Urgent Question “Declare a Climate Emergency?” – Extinction Rebellion
- 14.Europe’s transition to a green energy future
- 15.Population growth and climate change explained by Hans Rosling
- 16.Europe’s first carbon neutral neighborhood – Smart Cities – Horizons
- 17.Malmo – green energy revolution
- 18.Sweden: Creating Jobs by Greening Malmö
- 19.Greta Thunberg speaks as she sets sail for U.S. climate summit
- 20.The Zero-Emissions Boat That Will take Greta Thunberg to the U.S.
- 21.Greta Thunberg sets sail on zero-carbon Atlantic voyage
- 22.16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg says meeting with Trump would be a “waste”
- 23.Greta Thunberg’s speech at New York arrival
- 24.Greta Thunberg joins hundreds of teenagers in climate protest in New York
- 25.Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Arrives in NYC to Fight “Biggest Crisis Humanity Has Ever Faced”
- 26.“We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
- 27.Greta Thunberg meets with US lawmakers to discuss climate crisis – watch live
- 28.Greta Thunberg urges all to join Friday’s climate strike: ‘See you on the street!’
- 29.Greta Thunberg and Fridays For Future honoured by Amnesty International – watch live
- 30.Greta Thunberg on the Climate Fight: “If We Can Save the Banks, Then We Can Save the World”
- 31.Greta Thunberg to world leaders: ‘How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood’
- 32.Greta Thunberg: the speeches that helped spark a climate movement
- 33.Greta Thunberg ‘is right to be furious’ | The Pledge