Empowering climate change activist, Greta Thunberg, has received acclaim for her environmental work, winning an award known as the ‘Alternative Nobel’. The prize is granted by the Right Livelihood awards (rightlivelihoodaward.org), launched in 1980 following rejected proposals from a Swedish-German philanthropist to make an environmental Nobel Prize.
Along with three other recipients, Thunberg will receive 1,000,000 Swedish krona (£83,000) in a ceremony in Stockholm on 4th December. Judges for the award stated that it is obvious to see Thunberg’s success in ‘inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts’. The other winners include Guo Jianmei from China and Aminatou Haidar of Western Sahara.