16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

The Swedish high school student has sparked a worldwide movement against global warming.

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, 16, was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday for her tireless work combating global warming.

“We have proposed Greta Thunberg because if we do nothing to halt climate change it will be the cause of wars, conflict, and refugees,” Norwegian lawmaker Freddy André Øvstegård told Norwegian news outlet VG.  “Greta Thunberg has launched a mass movement which I see as a major contribution to peace.”

After Sweden had its hottest summer on record, Thunberg went on strike in August to force politicians to act.   She has since inspired hundreds of thousands to do the same, creating the #FridaysForFuture movement, which has enlisted thousands of young people to skip school this Friday to march for policy action on environmental issues.

Thunberg spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland this past December where she told lawmakers they were “not mature enough to tell it like it is.”  The teen activist also spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January.

“Honoured and very grateful for this nomination,” Thunberg tweeted early Thursday morning.

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