Climate activist Greta Thunberg wins Sweden’s 'alternative Nobel Prize'

25 Sep 2019

Climate activist Greta Thunberg wins Sweden’s ‘alternative Nobel Prize’

Climate activist Greta Thunberg wins Sweden’s ‘alternative Nobel Prize’Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is one of the recipients of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award. The prize is also known as Sweden's alternative Nobel Prize.

The other winners are Sahrawi human rights activist Aminatou Haidar, Chinese lawyer Guo Jianmei, and the Brazilian Hutukara Yanomami Association and its leader Davi Kopenawa.

The Right Livelihood Foundation said that Ms Thunberg won the award “for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts”.

Recently, Greta Thunberg spoke strongly at the UN Climate Change Summit in New York.

Ms Thunberg told the participating member nations that the future generation will never forgive them if they fail to act on climate change effectively now.
 	She also recently won Amnesty International's highest award and has previously been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today."

German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull established the award in 1980. It is presented annually every December.

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