Greta Thunberg - Wikipedia
tulc(thought this was pretty cool)honors and awards said:In May 2018, before starting her climate strike, Thunberg was one of the winners of Svenska Dagbladet's debate article writing competition on the climate for young people.[30]
In November 2018, about three months into her school climate strike, Thunberg was nominated for the Children's Climate Prize, which is awarded by the Swedish electricity company Telge Energi. However, Thunberg declined to accept the award because many of the finalists would have to fly to Stockholm for the ceremony and a required meeting with one another.[118][119]
On 10 December 2018, Time magazine named Thunberg one of the world's 25 most influential teenagers of 2018.[120] In 2018, Thunberg was awarded the Fryshuset scholarship of the Young Role Model of the Year.[121]
On 8 March 2019, Thunberg was named Swedish Woman of the Year by Swedish Women's Educational Association.[122]
On 13 March 2019, two deputies of the Swedish parliament and three deputies of the Norwegian parliament nominated Thunberg as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. The nominating politicians explained their decision by arguing that global warming will be the cause of "wars, conflict and refugees" if nothing is done to halt it. Thunberg responded that she was "honoured and very grateful" for the nomination.[123] The Nobel Peace Prize was ultimately awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali.[13] If Thunberg had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize she would have become the youngest person ever to receive it.[124]
On 31 March 2019, Thunberg received the German Goldene Kamera Special Climate Protection award.[125] On 1 April 2019, the Prix Liberté from France's region Normandy was awarded to Thunberg, which she received in Caen on 21 July that year.[126] Thunberg is the first recipient of this new award, which was designed to honour a young person engaged in a fight for peace and freedom.[127] Thunberg said she would donate the €25,000 prize money to four organisations working for climate justice and helping areas already affected by climate change.[128]
On 12 April 2019, Thunberg shared the Norwegian Fritt Ords Prize, which celebrates freedom of speech, with the Nature and Youth organisation. The conferring organisation, Fritt Ord noted their determined committed activism even in the face of pervasive online and media harassment. Thunberg donated her share of the prize money to a lawsuit which seeks to halt Norwegian oil exploration in the Arctic.[129]
In April 2019, Time magazine named Thunberg as one of the 100 most influential people of 2019.[130] In the same month, the Chilean-based organisation, Fundación Milarepa para el Diálogo con Asia, headed by Mario Aguilar of the University of St Andrews, announced that Thunberg had been selected as the recipient of the organisation's Laudato Si' Prize.[131] Webby Awards named Thunberg for "Webby Social Movement of the Year" of 2019.[132]
In May 2019, the University of Mons announced it had awarded a doctor honoris causa (honorary degree) to Thunberg. The doctoral diploma and insignia was bestowed at the official opening of the university's 2019–2020 academic year on 10 October 2019. Thunberg was unable to be present for the ceremony, but thanked the university in a video.[133][134]
In July 2019, Thunberg was awarded the Geddes Environment Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society,[135] which automatically granted her its Honorary Fellowship.[136]
In May 2019, artist Jody Thomas painted a 50-foot-high (15 m) mural of Thunberg on a wall in Bristol. It portrays the bottom half of her face as if under rising sea water.[137] In May 2019, Thunberg was featured on the cover of Time magazine where she was described as a role model,[111] and one of the "next generation leaders".[8]
In May 2019, Vice released a 30-minute documentary, Make the World Greta Again. It features interviews with a number of youth protest leaders in Europe.[138][139]
On 7 June 2019, Amnesty International announced that it will give Thunberg their most prestigious award, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, for her leadership in the climate movement. Thunberg then said the prize equally belongs to everyone who has taken part in the Fridays for Future Movement in school strike for climate.[140] The activist said the award is "for all those millions of people, young people, around the world who together make up the movement called Friday's for Future."[141][142]
The September 2019 issue of British Vogue magazine's cover featured Thunberg (along with fifteen women); the cover was created by guest editor Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.[143]
On 3 September 2019, Thunberg received the first-ever Game Changer Award at the GQ "Men of the Year Awards 2019." The award was designed specifically with her in mind.[144]
On 25 September 2019, Thunberg was named as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, known as Sweden's alternative Nobel Prize. Thunberg won the award "for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts", the Right Livelihood Foundation said in a statement.[145]
On 27 September 2019, Thunberg was awarded Keys to the City of Montréal, Canada, by Mayor Valérie Plante. Upon receiving Keys to the City, Thunberg said "I am incredibly honoured."[146] She was in Montréal for the Global Climate Strike where over 500,000 people marched calling on political leaders to take action against climate change and met with Mayor Plante after delivering a speech to the massed protesters.[146]
On 1 October 2019, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine published an academic paper wherein a newly identified species of beetle (Nelloptodes gretae) was named after Thunberg. The author, scientist Dr Michael Darby, said he chose the name because he was "immensely impressed" by the Swedish teenager's environmental campaigning, and he wanted to acknowledge her outstanding contribution in raising awareness of environmental issues.[147][148]
On 4 October 2019, on behalf of the KidsRights Foundation, Desmond Tutu announced that Thunberg, along with 14-year-old Divina Maloum from Cameroon, was awarded the International Children's Peace Prize of 2019. "I am in awe of you," Tutu said. "Your powerful message is amplified by your youthful energy and unshakable belief that children can, no must, improve their own futures. You are true change-makers who have demonstrated most powerfully that children can move the world."[149] The prize will be awarded on 20 November 2019 at a ceremony in The Hague.[150]
On 8 October 2019, Thunberg, along with Native American teenage climate activist Tokata Iron Eyes, took part in a climate panel on the North Dakota side of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. At the end of the panel discussion, Thunberg was honored with a Lakota name—Mahpiya Etahan hi wi—by former Standing Rock Chairman Jay Taken Alive with Standing Rock Sioux Chief Arvol Looking Horse in attendance. Thunberg's Lakota name translated into English means: "Woman Who Came From the Heavens." Tribal members say she is awakening the world and they stand by her mission.[151][152][153]
On 29 October 2019, Thunberg was awarded the 2019 Nordic Council Environment Prize, but she declined to accept the award or prize money of $52,000, stating "the climate movement does not need any more awards.” She further stated that the climate movement needed people in power to start to listen to science and not awards.[154][155][156]
On 11 November 2019, Glamour magazine Woman of the Year awards were presented. Accepting on behalf of Thunberg was Jane Fonda who read Thunberg's statement: "I’m incredibly honored to have received this award. . . . If a Swedish teenage science nerd who has stop shop, refuses to fly, and who has never worn makeup or been to a hairdresser can be chosen a Woman of the Year by one of the biggest fashion magazines in the world, then I think almost nothing is impossible. That is hopeful because that is what we need right now to prevent a climate catastrophe. We must do the impossible. Thank you."[157][158]
On 11 December 2019, Time magazine named Thunberg Person of the Year.[159] She is the first person born in the 21st century to be named Person of the Year, and the youngest individual Time Person of the Year.[160] Time stated: "She has succeeded in creating a global attitudinal shift, transforming millions of vague, middle-of-the-night anxieties into a worldwide movement calling for urgent change. She has offered a moral clarion call to those who are willing to act, and hurled shame on those who are not."[161] "For sounding the alarm about humanity’s predatory relationship with the only home we have, for bringing to a fragmented world a voice that transcends backgrounds and borders, for showing us all what it might look like when a new generation leads, Greta Thunberg is Time’s 2019 Person of the Year,” the media franchise said on its website."[162]
