Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has reportedly been nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
Swedish lawmakers Jens Holm and Hakan Svenneling submitted the 17-year-old’s name for consideration, according to the Associated Press.
Thunberg “has worked hard to make politicians open their eyes to the climate crisis,” the Left Party members said. “Action for reducing our emissions and complying with the Paris Agreement is therefore also an act of making peace.”
The schoolgirl who inspired an international movement to fight climate change was recommended for the prize last year by three Norwegian members of parliament.
In 2018, Thunberg was just a pigtailed kid camping outside Sweden’s parliament, demanding reduced carbon emissions.
Now, she’s a ponytailed phenom who’s emboldened students across the world to hold climate strikes.
Motivated by the Parkland teen activists in Florida, Thunberg created the Fridays For The Future movement, trading weekly school lessons for regular protests.
In December, she became the youngest recipient of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year tradition, which began in 1927.
Busy making the world a better place, Thunberg has not yet addressed the 2020 Peace Prize nod. Last year, she tweeted that “It’s obviously a great honor and nice to be nominated for such a big prize.”
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won in 2019 for his efforts to achieve international peace.
If Greta prevails (fingers crossed!), she would be the 54th female Nobel Prize recipient and 18th woman to earn the Peace Prize in the award’s 118-year history.
Since 1901, male nominees have dominated the annual list, winning on 73 more occasions than women, according to Refinery29.
Then 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai, champion of women’s and girls’ rights to education, won the Peace Prize alongside child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi in 2014. Most recently, human rights activist Nadia Murad snagged the 2018 medal “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.”
The Norwegian Nobel Institute neither confirms nor denies nominees until an official list is published 50 years later. (Definitive proof will be available in 2070.)
This year’s winner will be announced in early October.
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