Greta Thunberg Age, Family, Story, Biography & More

Greta Thunberg Age, family, story, biography and more

Greta Thunberg

Bio / Wiki
Full Name: Greta Ernmann Thunberg
Profession: Climate activist
Famous: Leading school strike for climate outside Swedish parliament and speaking at COP24

Body Stats & More
Eye Color: Hazel Blue
Hair Color: Light Ash Blonde

Personal Life Date of Birth : January 3, 2003 (Friday)
Age (in 2020): 17 years
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
Nationality: Swedish
Hometown: Stockholm, Sweden
School Name: Not Known
Educational Qualification: 9 Class
Ethnicity / Race: Swedish
Food Habit: Vegetarian (became a vegetarian in his early teens)
Hobbies: Riding Cycle, Reading

Awards, Honors & Achievements

• In May 2018, she was one of the winners of Svenska Dagbladet's debate article writing competition on climate for young people.

 • He was also nominated for the Children's Climate Prize for the power company Tellej Energy, but would have to travel to Stockholm if he refused the final.

 • In November 2018, Thunberg was awarded the Young Role Model of the Year Friskusch Scholarship.

 • In December 2018, Time magazine named Thunberg one of the 25 most influential teenagers in the world of 2018.

 • In March 2019, on the occasion of International Women's Day, Thunberg was declared the most important woman of the year in Sweden.

 • In March 2019, three Norwegian MPs nominated Thunberg for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.

 • Greta received the German Golden Comera Special Climate Protection Award on 31 March 2019.

 

Greta Thunberg won the German Golden Hodge Special Climate Protection Award
  • In April 2019, Amnesty International gave her its most prestigious award, the Ambassador of Conscious Award.
 

Greta Thunberg Amnesty Award 2019

  • On July 12, 2019, he was awarded the Gordes Environment Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.
 

Greta Thunberg shows off her gross environment medal

  • On 25 September 2019, Greta was nominated as one of the four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, known as Sweden's Alternative Nobel Prize.
 

Greta Thunberg Right Livelihood Award 2019

  • On 20 July 2020, he was presented with the Portuguese Rights Award, the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity.

Controversies
• Many blogs and magazines have questioned Thunberg.  Most notably, an excerpt from the right-wing Swiss magazine Die Weltwatch, which investigated why Thunberg is receiving so much support when another teen activist, Izabella Nilsson Jarvandi - who campaigns against migration and "globalism"  Can hardly be seen.  Her mother, who is a well-known opera singer, took Greta's name to promote her book.  Greta's mother's PR team launched the book on Instagram with a picture of Greta on the school strike and published an article about her on Facebook.
  • An NGO named We Don't Have Time Foundation (WDHT) recruited Thünenberg to become an unpaid youth consultant and used Thuenberg's name and image to raise millions for WDHT.  "I am not part of any organization, I am absolutely free and do what I do completely for free," Thunberg said, leaving his volunteer advisory role with WDHT.

Relationships & More
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Affairs/Boyfriends: None

Family
Parents Father- Svante Thunberg (Swedish Actor, Producer and Author)
Mother- Malena Ernman (Swedish Opera Singer)

Greta Thunberg's Parents

Greta Thunberg With Her Parents And Sister

Grandparents Grand-father- Olof Thunberg (Swedish actor and director)

Greta Thunberg Grandfather Olof Thunberg

Grand-mother- Mona Andersson
Siblings Brother- None
Sister- Beata Thunberg

Greta Thunberg With Her Sister Beata

Favorite Things
Favorite Food: Salads, Falafel, and Noodles
Greta Thunberg

Some Lesser Known Facts About Greta Thunberg

• Greta Thunberg is a Swedish climate activist;  Campaign against global warming and climate change.
• She was born in a modest family in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.
• Her mother, Malina Ermann, is a popular opera singer in Sweden;  While his father, Svante Thunberg, is a Swedish actor.

 

Greta Thunberg with her parents and sister Betta

• Interestingly, Greta's father is a descendant of Swetten Arrhenius, a scientist awarded the Swetten Thunberg Nobel Prize, who first calculated the greenhouse effect due to carbon dioxide emissions in 1896, known as the "father of climate change science"  used to go.  He was also named after him.
• When she was around 8 and in third grade, she first heard about something called "climate change" and "global warming".
• Little Greta started considering the concept of climate change and global warming when she was asked by her teachers to turn off the lights and save paper. 
• She says "They were always talking about how we should turn off the lights, save water, not throw away food."
• She began to feel strange that even after being aware of the consequences of climate change and global warming, why humans did not take any concrete steps about it.
• Greta says-"I felt it was very strange. If humans could actually change the climate, then everyone would be talking about it and people would not be talking about anything else.  But this was not happening."
• By the age of 11, she had become ill;  Thinking on the effects of human activity on climate change.  He stopped talking and eating and, within two months, he lost 10 kg of weight.
• Later, Greta and her younger sister, Beta, were diagnosed with autism, a.d.h.  (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), ie, Asperger's and other conditions.

Greta Thinberg with her younger sister Betta

• Greta began researching climate change.  He quit eating meat and became a vegetarian.  He urged his family to turn vegetarian and take flight. 
• She says "It's not a sacrifice for me, I don't need those things," she said.  "I understand that some people see this as a sacrifice. People don't want to stop the flight, but it's just something we have to do. There is no other option."

  

Greta Thunberg's bicycle stands outside Parliament

• As a result, her mother, Malina Erman, abandoned her international career due to the climatic effects of aviation.  
• Greta's father, Svante, says-"Greta forced us to change our lives.  I have no clue about the climate.  We started watching it, read all the books - he has read them too."
• The family has also installed solar batteries and started growing their own vegetables on allotment outside the city.

  

A tomato plant in Greta Thunberg's own garden

• On August 20, 2018, when she had just started ninth grade, she went on a school strike and decided not to attend school until the Sweden general election on September 9, 2018.

  

Greta Thunberg's Instagram post is about her school strike

• Thunberg began protests by sitting outside Rixdag, the Swedish Parliament, with the signature "Scholstrejak Kalimlet" (school strike for the climate) every day during school hours;  Handing out leaflets to the announced passersby: "I am doing this because you adults are thinking about my future."
  
  
• Following the 2018 Swedish general elections, Thunberg continued the strike only on Friday, drawing worldwide attention.
• Initially, no one supported her opposition and had to sit alone outside the Swedish Parliament.  Later, many school students around the world were inspired by Greta's protests and began participating in student's strikes.
  
  
• When Thunberg began her protest, her parents and some of her teachers wanted her to give up her protest and go back to school.
• In an interview, Thunberg said she was inspired to launch a climate school strike by teen activists at Parkland School in Florida, which organized the March for Our Lives.
• After protests outside the Swedish Parliament, Greta attended the Rise for a climate demonstration outside the European Parliament in Brussels.

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• In October 2018, Greta and her family drove an electric car to London, where Greta addressed the 'Declaration of Rebellion' organized by the Extinct Rebellion in front of the Houses of Parliament.

   

Greta Thanberg on route to London on an electric car

• On November 24, 2018, Thanberg spoke on TEDxStockholm.
  
  
• On December 4, 2018, Greta Thunberg addressed the COP24 United Nations Climate Change Summit.
  
  
• She arrived in Davos on January 23, 2019, after a 32-hour train journey to address at the World Economic Forum;  Where many delegates arrived by 1500 individual private jet flights.

  

Greta Thunberg on the way to Davos

• Greta considers famous primatologist Jane Goodall her hero.

  

Greta Thunberg with Jane Goodall

• Greta is very kind to animals and has two pet dogs at her home in Sweden.

 

Greta Thunberg with her pet dogs

• Even after having Asperger's syndrome, Greta sees her condition not as a disability but as a gift that has helped open her eyes to the climate crisis. 
• She says "The best thing about my protest is that more and more people are coming and joining. I don't care if I have a problem in school. I believe that a person can make a difference."
• In May 2019, at the age of 16, Greta was featured on the cover of the prestigious Time magazine.

  

Greta Thunberg on the cover of Time magazine

• Famous artist, Jodi Thomas, awarded Greta a stunning street art mural.  He painted Thunberg's portrait on the side of a 15-meter-high Tobacco factory building in his home town of Bristol, south-west England.

 

Greta Thunberg Mural Painted by Jody Thomas

• In June 2019, Thunberg announced crossing the Atlantic in a high-speed ferry to attend the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.  He is equipped with solar panels and underwater turbines on a 60-foot racing yacht.  The yacht is claimed to be zero-emission.  After a 15-day visit, she arrived in New York on August 28, 2019.
  
  

• In July 2019, the Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Mohammed Barkindo, declared Thüsberg and his climate activism as the "biggest threat" to the fossil fuel industry.
• In July 2019, she partnered with the popular English band "The 1975" and lent a long voice to her new track.

• She met former President Barack Obama on September 16, 2019 as part of her visit to Washington, DC to promote environmental issues. Obama told Thunberg:

 "You and I, we are a team. "

• On 23 September 2019, Greta opened the United Nations Climate Action Summit at the United Nations (UN) headquarters.  His speech at the summit was a fierce condemnation of world leaders for failing to take strong steps to tackle climate change, she said-

  "how dare you"

• In October 2019, a newly discovered species of beetle, "Neltopods gratae," was named after him.  This species of beetle is less than 1 mm long and has no wings or eyes.  However, the insect has two long pigtail-like antennae.  Scientist Dr.  Michael Derby said he chose the name because he was "extremely impressed" by the Swedish teenager's environmental campaign.

 

The beetle is named after Greta Thunberg

• In November 2019, famous Hollywood actor and a noted environmental campaigner, Leonardo DiCaprio praised Greta Thunberg as "the leader of our time" after her first meeting.  Sharing a photo with Greta on her Instagram account, she said,
• It was an honor to spend time with Greta. She and I have committed to support each other, in the hope of a bright future for our planet. 

 

Leonardo DiCaprio with Greta Thunberg

• That same month, another Hollywood star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, met Greta;  Describing her as a "hero". This was not the first meeting between Greta and Schwarzenegger.  In May 2019, she attended the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, organized by Schwarzenegger's environmental organization # R20.  In September 2019, Schwarzenegger offered Ms. Thunberg a Tesla Model 3 loan, therefore, she could travel through the US and Canada using an electric vehicle.

   

It was fantastic to see my friend and one of my heroes @GretaThunberg last week and go on a bike ride around Santa Monica together and I was so pumped to introduce her to my daughter Christina. Keep inspiring, Greta! pic.twitter.com/3Q6ZuInJHY

- Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) November 4, 2019

  - Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) November 4, 2019

• Greta Thunberg's climate activism on the global stage is often referred to as the "Greta Thunberg Effect".