Greta Thunberg is a young climate activist from Sweden. She emerged as the most powerful voice of a generation that will have to bear the consequences of today’s political failure to stop climate change. Her resolve to not put up with the looming climate disaster has inspired millions of her peers to also raise their voices and demand immediate climate action.

In August 2018, 15-year-old Thunberg saw with despair how politicians lacked strategies to combat climate change. Knowing that the lives of present and future generations depend on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, Thunberg decided to raise her voice. She went on a “school strike for climate” outside the Swedish Parliament, and the movement #FridaysForFuture was born.

Millions of people – young and old – have taken to the streets since. Thunberg personifies the notion that everyone has the power to create change. Her example has inspired and empowered people from all walks of life to demand political action to stop climate change.

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