Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Declines Environmental Award

Teenage green activist, Great Thunberg, has turned down receiving an environmental prize, stating that the honour won’t contribute to the movement.

The 16-year-old Swede was nominated by Sweden and Norway for her “Fridays for Future” movement, and was honoured at a Nordic Council ceremony held in Stockholm.

The regional body for inter-parliamentary cooperation declared that Thunberg had won, but her representative told the audience that she would not accept the $52 000 prize.

Thunberg confirmed the decision in a post on Instagram, in which she said: “I want to thank the Nordic Council for this award. It is a huge honour. But the climate movement does not need any more awards. What we need is for our politicians and the people in power to listen to the current, best available science.”

Although quite young, the amazing teenager caught the public eye when she started demonstrating outside Sweden’s parliament on a Friday in August 2018, whilst holding a sign that read “School strike for climate”.