The Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg has received the environment prize of the Nordic Council awarded him immediately rejected. The climate movement need no further prices but deeds, and let you know.

you get the price that you have mobilized millions of people around the world to demand a critical time of political Action for the climate, announced by the Council on Tuesday evening at a ceremony in Stockholm.

Shortly afterwards, the 16-Year-old tweeted that she had decided to reject the prize. You thank the Nordic Council for the award, which was a great honor, wrote Thunberg on Instagram. The climate movement need no other prizes, but the politicians who listened to the findings of science.

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I have received the Nordic Council’s environmental award in 2019. I have decided to decline this prize. Here’s why: “I am currently traveling through California and therefore not able to be present with you today. I want to thank the Nordic Council for this award. It is a huge honour. But the climate movement does not need any more awards. What we need is for our politicians and the people in power start to listen to the current, best available science. The Nordic countries have a great reputation around the world when it comes to climate and environmental issues. There is no lack of bragging about this. There is no lack of beautiful words. But when it comes to our actual emissions and our ecological footprints per capita if we include our consumption, our imports as well as aviation and shipping – then it’s a whole other story. In Sweden we live as if we had about 4 planets according to the WWF and Global Footprint Network. And roughly the same goes for the entire Nordic region. In Norway for instance, the government recently gave a record number of permits to look for new oil and gas. The newly opened oil and natural gas field, ”Johan Sverdrup” is expected to produce oil and natural gas for 50 years; oil and gas that would generate a global CO2 emission of 1,3 tonnes. The gap between what the science says is needed to limit the increase of global temperature rise to below a 1.5 or even 2 degrees, and politics that run the Nordic countries is gigantic. And there are still no signs whatsoever of the changes required. The Paris Agreement, which all of the Nordic countries have signed, is based on the aspect of equity, which means that richer countries must lead the way. We belong to the countries that have the possibility to do the most. And yet our countries still basically do nothing. So until you start to act in accordance with what the science says is needed to limit the global temperature rise below 1,5 degrees or even 2 degrees celsius, I – and Fridays For Future in Sweden – choose not to accept the Nordic Council environmental award nor the prize money of 500 000 Swedish kronor. Best wishes, Greta Thunberg”

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Two representatives of the environmental movement of the Fridays for the Future at the ceremony on behalf of Thun, mountain, the Scandinavian countries were declared to the States that could do the most for the climate, in principle, but nothing would.

Thunberg in North America

The Nordic Council, the Central Forum of the Region of Scandinavia. Its members include also the largely separate territories Åland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland.

each year the Council awards prizes in the categories of literature, children’s and youth literature, Film, music and the environment. Each of the awards is endowed with 350’000 Danish crowns (about 52’000 Swiss francs). Thunberg had been nominated by the countries of Sweden and Norway for the environmental award. It is for two months in North America. (chk/sda)

Created: 30.10.2019, 01:52 PM