16-year-old Activist Nominated For The Nobel Peace Prize

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Greta Thunberg, a young girl of just 16 from Norway has been nominated this Friday for the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against climate change, among other environmental causes.

"We have nominated her because the threat against the climate is probably the most important cause of war and conflict," Freddy Andre Øevstegaard, Swedish parliamentary representative, exclaimed to the VG newspaper. "The huge movement that Greta has launched is a very important contribution to peace."

"[I feel] honored and grateful for this nomination," exclaimed the young woman on Facebook when sharing the news on networks.

Under the hashtag #climatestrike Thunberg has launched a movement that has mobilized hundreds of young people to protest the lack of clear action by some governments to combat the threat of global warming.

Despite her young age, the young woman already participated with great success in the UN climate summit held in Poland in 2018 as well as the world economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, where some of the richest men and women gather. and influential of the planet.

So far there are 301 people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize - including 223 individuals and 73 organizations - as revealed by the Nobel Foundation and now it is up to the Nobel Committee to choose a winner.

If Thunberg wins this honor, she will become the second youngest winner in the history of the Nobel Peace Prize, after the Pakistani Malala Yousafzai received the award in 2014 after surviving an attack against her as an educational rights activist. of girls in your country.

The teenager's nomination appears just on the eve of a massive event scheduled for this Friday, March 15, in which thousands of children and adolescents will leave classrooms in schools around the world in protest at climate change and the environmental crisis. This protest was organized by the aforementioned Global Strike movement and comprises 1,659 protests in at least 10 countries.

I don't want them to have hope. I don't want them to panic. I want them to feel the fear that I feel every day and I want them to do something,”Thunberg exclaimed to world leaders when he appeared in Davos. They will do it?