Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist who is internationally known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action against climate change.

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2. UN RESOLUTION - ACTIVIST GRETA
THUNBERG

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4. GRETA THUNBERG
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman
Thunberg is a Swedish environmental
activist who has gained international
recognition for promoting the view
that humanity is facing an existential
crisis arising from climate change.
https://youtu.be/1rP8uxNFAJY

5. Mental health
Thunberg says she first heard about climate change in 2011, when she
was eight years old, and could not understand why so little was being
done about it.The situation made her depressed. At the age of 11, she
stopped talking and eating, and lost ten kilograms (22 lb) in two
months. Eventually, she was diagnosed with Asperger
syndrome, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), and selective mutism.In
one of her first speeches demanding climate action, Thunberg described
the selective mutism aspect of her condition as meaning she "only speaks
when necessary".
Greta struggled with depression for three or four years before she began
her school strike.When she started protesting, her parents did not support
her activism.

6. Activism at home
For about two years, Thunberg challenged her parents
to lower the family's carbon footprint and
overall impact on the environment by
becoming vegan, upcycling, and giving up
flying.[15][25][26] She has said she tried showing them
graphs and data, but when that did not work, she
warned her family that they were stealing her future.

7. School
strike for
climate
She is a
figurehead
of the School
strike for
climate mov
ement and
has
transcended
her years to
have a huge
influence on
the current
discourse.
In August
2018,
Thunberg
began the
school climate
strikes and
public
speeches for
which she has
become an
internationally
recognised
climate
activist.
On 20 August 2018,
Thunberg, who had
just started ninth
grade, decided not
to attend school until
the 2018 Swedish
general election on 9
September; her
protest began after
the heat
waves and wildfires d
uring Sweden's
hottest summer in at
least 262 years.
What Greta Thunberg
can teach us all
about sustainability

8. “We can’t save the
world by playing by the
rules, because the rules
have to be changed.
Everything needs to
change, and it has to
start today.” — Greta
Thunberg
What we can learn from Greta — in her own words
The power of starting small
“Some people say that Sweden is just a small country, and that it doesn’t matter what
we do, but I think that if a few children can get headlines all over the world just by not
coming to school for a few weeks, imagine what we could all do together if you wanted
to.”
Asking the tough questions
“Everyone keeps saying climate change is an existential threat and the most important
issue of all, and yet they just carry on like before. I don’t understand that, because if the
emissions have to stop, then we must stop the emissions. To me that is black or white.
There are no grey areas when it comes to survival”
The facts are already out there
“Some people say that I should be in school instead. Some people say that I should study
to become a climate scientist so that I can “solve the climate crisis.” But the climate crisis
has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do
is to wake up and change”
We need action — now
“We’ve had 30 years of pep-talking and selling positive ideas. And I’m sorry, but it
doesn’t work. Because if it would have, the emissions would have gone down by now.
They haven’t. And yes, we do need hope, of course we do. But the one thing we need
more than hope is action.”
https://youtu.be/EA
mmUIEsN9A

9. UN Climate Action Summit
On 23 September, Thunberg attended the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City.That day
the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) hosted a press conference where Thunberg joined fifteen
other children including Ayakha Melithafa, Alexandria Villaseñor, Catarina Lorenzo, Carl Smith and others.

10. At the UN Climate Action Summit
This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should
be back in school on the other side of the ocean.
Yet you all come to us young people for
hope. How dare you!
You have stolen my dreams and my childhood
with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the
lucky ones. People are suffering. People are
dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in
the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you
can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal
economic growth. How dare you!
— Greta Thunberg, New York, 23 September 2019
climate activist Greta Thunberg has told world
leaders at the 2019 UN climate action summit in
New York.
https://youtu.be/o3FAE4e7Pok

11. Autumn global climate strikes
In Canada, Thunberg participated in climate protests in the cities
of Montreal, Edmonton and Vancouver including leading a climate rally as part of the 27
September Global Climate Strike in Montreal.[61] The school strikes for climate on 20 and 27 September
2019 were attended by over four million people, according to one of the co-organisers.
Participation at COP25
Thunberg had intended to remain in the Americas to travel overland to attend the United Nations
Climate Change Conference (COP25) originally planned in Santiago, Chile in December. However, it
was announced on short notice that COP25 was to be moved to Madrid, Spain, because of serious
public unrest in Chile.[66] Thunberg has refused to fly because of the carbon emissions from air travel, so
she posted on social media that she needed a ride across the Atlantic Ocean.

12. Social media activism
Thunberg posted a photo of her first strike day
on Instagram and Twitter, with other social media accounts
quickly taking up her cause. High-profile youth activists
amplified her Instagram post, and on the second day she
was joined by other activists. A representative of the Finnish
bank Nordea quoted one of Thunberg's tweets to more
than 200,000 followers.
After October 2018, Thunberg's activism evolved from
solitary protesting to taking part in demonstrations
throughout Europe.
Thunberg spoke out against the National Eligibility cum
Entrance Test (Undergraduate) 2020 and Joint Entrance
Examination 2020 entrance exams, which are being
conducted in India in September. She said that it is unfair
for students to appear for exams in the middle of a global
pandemic. She also said that the students of India have
been deeply impacted by the floods that hit states such as
Bihar and Assam, which cause mass destruction for the
citizens.
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13. COVID-19 and virtual activism
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic response
required behavioural changes including social
distancing, quarantine, and face coverings. On 13
March 2020, Thunberg stated that "In a crisis we change
our behaviour and adapt to the new circumstances for
the greater good of society."Thunberg and School strike
for climate subsequently moved their activism and
protests online.On 20 August 2020, the second
anniversary of Thunberg's first school strike for the
climate, Thunberg and fellow climate activists Luisa
Neubauer, Anuna de Wever van der
Heyden and Adélaïde Charlier met with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.They subsequently
announced plans for another global climate strike on 25
September 2020. Neubauer said that whether the strike
in September is virtual in nature or in the streets will be
determined by the global pandemic emergency. "The
climate crisis doesn't pause", Neubauer said at a joint
press conference with her fellow activists echoing her
sentiment.

14. "The Greta effect"
Thunberg has inspired a number of her school-aged peers in what has
been described as "The Greta effect".[124] In response to her outspoken
stance, various politicians have also acknowledged the need to focus
on climate change.
In February 2019, Thunberg shared a stage with the then President of
the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, where he outlined "In
the next financial period from 2021 to 2027, every fourth euro spent
within the EU budget will go towards action to mitigate climate
change".
In June 2019, a YouGov poll in Britain found that public concern about
the environment had soared to record levels in the UK since Thunberg
and Extinction Rebellion had "pierced the bubble of denial".
In August 2019, publication and sales of children's books about the
climate crisis reportedly doubled compared to the previous year.
Publishers attribute this to the "Greta effect".
In December 2019, the New Scientist described the impact made by
Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion with the headline: "The year the
world woke up to climate change"

15. Position on climate change
A video of Thunberg speaking at the 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos
Thunberg believes that humanity is facing an existential crisis because of
global warming[89] and holds the current generation of adults responsible
for creating the problem.[90] She uses graphic analogies (such as "our
house is on fire") to highlight her concerns and often speaks bluntly to
business and political leaders about their failure to take concerted action.
Thunberg has argued that commitments made at the Paris Agreement are
insufficient to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, and that the
greenhouse gas emissions curve needs to start declining steeply no later
than 2020—as detailed in the IPCC's 2018 Special Report on Global
Warming of 1.5° CIn February 2019, at a conference of the European
Economic and Social Committee, she said that the EU's current intention to
cut emissions by 40% by 2030 is "not sufficient to protect the future for
children growing up today" and that the EU must reduce their CO
2 emissions by 80%, double the 40% goal.
Public response and impact
Thunberg has received both strong support and strong criticism for her
work from politicians and the press.

16. Referance-
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nited%20Nations%20resolution%20(UN,Council%20or%20the%20General
%20Assembly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg
https://www.consciouscreatives.co.uk/leadership/what-greta-
thunberg-can-teach-us-all-about-sustainability/

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