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Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg is a Swedish activist who inspired a movement of school strikes against government climate inaction

December 2023

  • Greta Thunberg, right, at a demonstration in Stockholm, Sweden, against Israeli attacks on Gaza, 24 November.

    We won’t stop speaking out about Gaza’s suffering – there is no climate justice without human rights

    Greta Thunberg and Fridays for Future Sweden
    Fridays for Future Sweden activists haven’t ‘been radicalised’ – solidarity with marginalised people has always been at the heart of our message, say Fridays for Future Sweden activist Greta Thunberg and others

October 2022

  • A sand timer with most of the sand, which is coloured to look like Earth from space, in the bottom

    Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’

    Governments may say they’re doing all they can to halt the climate crisis. Don’t fall for it – then we might still have time to turn things around

September 2022

  • UK burning wood from US forests<br>Undated handout photo courtesy of Matt Adam Williams, of an example of a clear-cut forest in North Carolina, where conservationists say wood is being made into wood pellets, as wood from forests "teeming with wildlife" in the US is being burned for electricity in the UK, conservationists have claimed. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 17, 2016. See PA story ENVIRONMENT Biomass. Photo credit should read: Matt Adam Williams/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    This is Europe
    Burning forests for energy isn’t ‘renewable’ – now the EU must admit it

    Greta Thunberg and others
    The EU’s classification of wood fuels is accelerating the climate crisis. Next week, a key vote can change that, says Greta Thunberg and other environmental activists

October 2021

  • An oil platform in the North Sea

    There are no real climate leaders yet – who will step up at Cop26?

    Greta Thunberg
    Like other rich nations, the UK is more talk than action on the climate crisis. Something needs to change in Glasgow, says climate activist Greta Thunberg

August 2020

  • The Rhenish brown coalfield, Europe’s largest carbon dioxide source, December 2018.

    After two years of school strikes, the world is still in a state of climate crisis denial

    Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Anuna De Wever and Adélaïde Charlier
    We can have as many meetings as we like, but the will to change is nowhere in sight, says climate activist Greta Thunberg, and others

January 2020

  • Davos town sign

    At Davos we will tell world leaders to abandon the fossil fuel economy

    Greta Thunberg and others
    Averting catastrophe would be the best business decision to emerge from the economic forum in its 50 years of existence, says climate activist Greta Thunberg and others

December 2019

  • Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrives in Lisbon in December 2019

    Today in Focus
    How Greta Thunberg's school strike went global: a look back

    Today in Focus talked to the climate change activist Greta Thunberg in March about the campaign of school strikes she started. As part of a series looking back at some of our favourite episodes of 2019, she told our environment editor Jonathan Watts how it all began

September 2019

  • A climate protest in São Paulo last week.

    If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them

    Greta Thunberg
    We are in the middle of a climate breakdown, and all they can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth, says climate activist Greta Thunberg

May 2019

  • School students protest against the climate crisis in Melbourne, May 2019

    Young people have led the climate strikes. Now we need adults to join us too

    Greta Thunberg and 46 youth activists
    Together, on 20 September, we can unleash mass resistance, say Greta Thunberg and 46 youth activists

April 2019

  • Greta Thunberg

    'You did not act in time': Greta Thunberg's full speech to MPs

    Read the full text of the speech Greta Thunberg gave to MPs at the Houses of Parliament

March 2019

  • Schoolchildren take part in a nationwide student climate march in George Square on February 15, 2019 in Glasgow.

    Guest edited by school climate strikers
    Think we should be at school? Today’s climate strike is the biggest lesson of all

    Greta Thunberg, Anna Taylor and others
  • Greta Thunberg

    Today in Focus
    How Greta Thunberg's school strike went global

January 2019

  • Greta Thunberg

    'Our house is on fire': Greta Thunberg, 16, urges leaders to act on climate

    Greta Thunberg
    Swedish school strike activist demands economists tackle runaway global warming. Read her Davos speech here

November 2018

  • Greta Thunberg leads a school strike and sits outside of the Swedish Parliament in an effort to force politicians to act on climate change on August 28, 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden

    I'm striking from school to protest inaction on climate change – you should too

    Greta Thunberg
    Every Friday, I miss classes to sit outside my country’s parliament. I will continue to do so until leaders come into line with the Paris agreement
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