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In August 2018, after Sweden’s hottest summer in more than two
hundred and sixty years,
13 Thunberg – then fifteen – decided to go
on a school-strike for the climate. She was inspired by teenage
activists in Florida, USA, who refused to attend school in the
aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
earlier in the year. Thunberg began protesting outside the Swedish
parliament to demand action on the climate crisis, specifically
calling upon the government to reduce national carbon emissions
according to the recommendations outlined in the Paris
Agreement.

Thunberg went on strike every day until the Swedish general
election in September 2018, after which she resumed striking, on
Fridays only. She then expanded her activism, participating in
demonstrations across Europe and speaking at climate seminars
and rallies including TEDxStockholm; the COP24 United Nations
climate change summit in Katowice, Poland; and the World
Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland.

Continuing her school-strikes, Thunberg’s initiative has spread into
a worldwide movement called Fridays For Future that has
mobilized hundreds of thousands of school children. In September
2019, over 7 million people in one hundred and twenty-eight
countries participated in a global climate strike. 

To maintain a low-carbon lifestyle, Thunberg is vegan and does not
fly, typically travelling by train within Europe. In 2019 she sailed
from the UK to the USA on a sixty-foot zero-emission racing yacht
to attend the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York,
USA. The crossing took two weeks. She returned to Europe for
COP25 in Barcelona on a zero-carbon catamaran.