Interesting Facts About Greta Thunberg You Need To Know

Time magazine featured her on their cover as "next generation leader in 2019.

Her mother is a Swedish opera singer and his father is an actor.

Her grandfather, Olof Thunberg is an actor and director.

She declined several international speaking invitations because she does not prefer air travel.

She contributed a voiceover for a release of "The 1975", the theme song of an English band by the same name.

She received the Fryshuset scholarship of the Young Role Model of the Year award in 2018.

She was proclaimed the most important woman of the year in Sweden in 2019.

She received the German Goldene Kamera Special Climate Protection Award in March 2019.

She was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. If she wins, she will become the youngest person ever to receive it.

Amnesty International awarded her the Ambassador of Conscience Award in June 2019.

The University of Mons awarded her with a doctor honoris causa (honorary degree).

The Royal Scottish Geographical Society awarded her the Geddes Environment Medal and its Honorary Fellowship in July 2019.

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