Climate activist Greta Thunberg back to school in Sweden
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[August 26, 2020]
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Climate
activist Greta Thunberg is back in school after a gap year in which she
emerged as the voice of young people trying to save the planet from
global warming and a thorn in the side of politicians she sees as
dragging their heels over change.
Posting a picture of herself with a backpack and pushing a bicycle, the
Swedish 17-year-old tweeted: "My gap year from school is over, and it
feels so great to finally be back in school again!"
Thunberg, who sparked a global youth-led protest movement after striking
outside the Swedish parliament in 2018, has spent the last year berating
politicians about rising global temperatures and what she sees as their
failure to live up to agreements enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate
Agreement.
Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2019, Thunberg has spoken at the
World Economic Forum in Davos and the COP25 climate summit in Madrid
over the last 12 months, calling for urgent action to prevent a climate
disaster.
In a Reuters interview in July, Thunberg said people in power had
practically given up on handing over a decent future to coming
generations.
With Europe beginning to emerge from coronavirus lockdowns, there have
been calls for the EU's recovery fund to be used to promote a transition
to a "green" economy.
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Environmental activist Greta Thunberg participates in a video
conversation with Johan Rockstrom, who joins from Germany, about the
coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the environment at the Nobel
Museum in Stockholm, Sweden on April 22, 2020. Jessica Gow/TT News
Agency/via REUTERS
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Meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week, Thunberg called
on her to step out of her "comfort zone" and speed up action to
fight the climate emergency.
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(Reporting by Simon Johnson; Editing by Giles Elgood)
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