Greta Thunberg
David Beckham, Stormzy and Richard Madden were among those who won prizes.
The teen campaigner is targeted for her ‘disturbed’ bluntness, tone of voice and even her facial expressions. I know first-hand what that’s like, writes Ellen Jones
Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Manhattan on Wednesday after a two-week journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a zero-emissions yacht. She is in the United States to attend the U.N. Climate Action summit next month and hopes to attend the COP25 in Santiago, Chile, in December. Thunberg said she was going to focus on "spreading awareness" instead of trying to convince US President Donald Trump about climate change.
The teenage climate change activist is in New York to attend the UN climate summit in September.
In late August 2018, a 15-year-old student made the decision to protest outside the Swedish parliament instead of attending school. Greta Thunberg drew international attention for the conviction that she could not continue to attend school while the climate was in crisis. Her actions inspired the Fridays For Future movement, where school children attend protests on Fridays instead of attending school, to bring attention to the climate change emergency. The 24 May 2019 protest drew over a million students from 130 countries onto the street to demand their respective governments make drastic change to save the planet.
People making off-colour jokes about Thunberg’s attempts to save the planet have got things the wrong way round.
“You’re wishing a potentially fatal accident onto a sixteen-year-old girl, why..?”
The 16-year-old Swedish activist has set sail on the Malizia II, a high-tech, sustainable racing yacht, which will take about two weeks to reach New York. Greta Thunberg will be attending the United Nations climate summit there in late September. She will spend some time in North America, before heading to South America where she plans to attend the COP25 climate summit in Chile in December.
The Herald Sun commentator mocked the teenage climate activist for choosing to sail across the Atlantic to the US on a high-tech racing yacht instead of by plane.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is heading to the United States for a climate summit. Having vowed not to fly, she's had to find other means of crossing the Atlantic. Thunberg is setting sail from the UK on the Malizia II, a racing boat fitted with solar panels and underwater turbines that produce electricity onboard, making the journey zero-carbon.