'The climate doesn't need awards': Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize

Source: Agence France-Presse

'The climate doesn't need awards': Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize

Agence France-Presse in Stockholm
Tue 29 Oct 2019 22.01 GMT
Last modified on Tue 29 Oct 2019 22.26 GMT

The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has refused to accept an environmental award, saying the climate movement needed people in power to start to “listen” to “science” and not awards.

The young climate activist, who has rallied millions to her “Fridays for Future” movement, was honoured at a Stockholm ceremony held by the Nordic Council, a regional body for inter-parliamentary cooperation.

She had been nominated for her efforts by both Sweden and Norway and won the organisation’s annual environment prize.

But after it was announced, a representative for Thunberg told the audience that she would not accept the award or the prize sum of 350,000 Danish kroner (about $52,000 or €46,800), the TT news agency reported.

She addressed the decision in a post on Instagram from the United States.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/greta-thunberg-declines-award-climate-crisis