Greta Thunberg Is Nominated For The Nobel Peace Prize For The Second Year Running

Feb 03, 2020 by apost team

Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg, 17, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize today. It marks her second nomination in consecutive years.

Jens Holm and Hakan Svenneling, two Swedish politicians have nominated her to the position reports the AP. They remark that she “has worked hard to make politicians open their eyes to the climate crisis.”

They continued on to say that “action for reducing our emissions and complying with the Paris Agreement is therefore also an act of making peace.”

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Thunberg is a vocal activist for the climate, encouraging students everywhere to protest. She is the founder of Fridays for Future, which started with Greta protesting every day at the Swedish parliament and spread into a global phenomenon.

Thunberg was nominated for the 2019 prize as well, although she lost to the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed according to Business Insider.

Qualified nominators such as lawmakers, other Nobel Prize winners, or members of the International Court of The Hague may nominate anybody they choose. The Nobel committee then selects the laureate according to its official website. Last year, Thunberg was nominated by three members of the Norwegian parliament.

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