🌟ABOUT GREETA THUNBERG 🌟

GRETA THUNBERG

Born	Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg 3 January 2003 (age 21) Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation	Environmental activist
Years active	2018–present
Movement	School Strike for Climate src="//www.topcreativeformat.com/19b60fe8bc1edde72b19511004c91e55/invoke.js" type="text/javascript">
Parents	Svante Thunberg (father) Malena Ernman (mother)
Relatives	Olof Thunberg (grandfather)
Awards	Full list

When Thunberg convinced her parents to make lifestyle decisions that lessened her family's carbon footprint, she started her climate activism. On August 20, 2018, at the age of 15, Thunberg started missing school and made a commitment to stay absent until after the Swedish national election in an effort to sway the results. She carried a sign reading "Skolstrejk för klimatet" (School Strike for Climate) and distributed pamphlets during her demonstration outside the Swedish parliament, where she demanded more aggressive action against climate change.[2] Following the election, Thunberg addressed her followers and invited them to record her on their phones. She went on to say that she would keep going on Fridays to school in protest of the climate until Sweden complied with the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.Thunberg's ascent to prominence as a global icon was propelled by her youth and direct communication style.[4]

Other students staged comparable demonstrations in their local communities not long after Thunberg's initial school walkout in support of the climate movement. Then, banding together under the name Fridays for Future, they planned the school strike for the climate movement. Global student protests against climate change took place every Friday following Thunberg's speech at the 2018 UN Climate Change Conference. Over a million students participated in a number of well-organized protests across several cities in 2019.[5] Thunberg travelled from Plymouth, England to New York City, where she spoke at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit, on a carbon-free yacht, to avoid flying."How dare you," Thunberg cried out in her speech, criticising the world's leaders for what she saw as their complacency and lack of response to the climate catastrophe. Her reprimand garnered international attention.

After becoming well-known worldwide, Thunberg became an impromptu leader in the community of climate activists.She also received harsh criticism, most of it ridiculing her for being a gullible teenager.[11] The "Greta effect" is how The Guardian and other media sources have referred to Thunberg's impact on the global scene.[12] She is the youngest Time Person of the Year in 2019, she was named an honorary Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, she was listed in Time's 100 Most Influential People, she was included in Forbes' list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2019)[13], and she was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Following her high school graduation in June 2023, Thunberg's protest strategies became more aggressive.[17] Her adult protests have included peaceful but defiant confrontations with police and disobedience of court-ordered dispersal, which have resulted in arrests, convictions, and one acquittal.[18][19] Along with focusing on climate change, Thunberg's activism has expanded to include other causes, most notably the Israel-Hamas conflict. Thunberg expressed her and Sweden's Fridays for Future positions in a co-authored opinion piece titled "We won't stop speaking out about Gaza's suffering – there is no climate justice without human rights."

EARLY LIFE

Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, Greta TintinBorn in Stockholm, Sweden on January 3, 2003, [21][22] was the child of actor Svante Thunberg and opera singer Malena Ernman [23][24].[25][26] Olof Thunberg, an actor and director, was her paternal grandfather.[27][28][29] According to The Week, "with a thespian father" and a mother who sings, "it is perhaps unsurprising that [Thunberg] has a slightly unusual name.... Thunberg shares her second name with the adventuring creation of Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé."[30] Beata is her younger sister.