Who is Greta Thunberg? Net Worth, Age, Height, Speeches, Twitter, Birthday, Bio, Family, Boyfriend

Greta Thunberg is an aspiring Swedish environmental activist and social media personality. She is best known as an environmental activist who grabbed the attention of people for her actions to fight climate change and global warming.

She is also known for organizing the world’s first school strike for climate change outside of Sweden’s parliament in August 2018. Besides this, on 24 November 2018, she spoke at TEDxStockholm and on 4th December of the same year, she addressed the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Greta was nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.

Greta Thunberg Biography / Wiki

Greta was born on 3 January 2003, in Stockholm, Sweden, and was brought up alongside her family members and friends. In her childhood, she went to a private school in her hometown to receive a graduate degree. Though, while studying in 9th grade Greta leaves school to start a movement against climate change. Later she completed her schooling and became an environmental activist.

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Real Name	Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
Nick Name	Greta Thunberg
Birth Place	Stockholm, Sweden
Date of Birth	3 January 2003
Age (as of 2023)	20 Years
Zodiac Sign	Capricorn
Nationality	Swedish
Profession	Environmental activist and social media personality

Greta Thunberg Age / Birthday

Greta Thunberg’s age is 20 years old (as of 2023). Her zodiac sign is Capricorn. She believes in Christianity.

Greta Thunberg Height, Weight, and Measurements

Talking about Greta’s physical appearance, she is about 5 feet 1 inch in height and 55 kg in weight. Her hair color is dark brown and her eyes color is brown. She has acquired a stunning and captivating slim-fit physique. 

Greta Thunberg Activism

Greta heard and understood about climate change while she was 8 years old and was aware of the lack of action by global leaders. Later, she was suffered from depression and subsequently Asperger syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and selective mutism. She did not let this hinder her cause. Greta began activism after convincing her parents to adopt lifestyle choices to reduce their own carbon footprint.

Then, at the age of 15, in August 2018, Greta started spending her school days outside the Swedish parliament to call for sufficient action on climate change. Soon after, Greta caught the attention of youths as well as global leaders and made headlines in international media. Greta alongside other school students started the school climate strike movement called Fridays for Future.

In May 2018, Thunberg won a climate change essay competition organized by Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. After publishing the essay in the newspaper, Greta was hired by Bo Thorén from Fossil Free Dalsland, a group interested in doing something about climate change.

Afterward, Greta invited all the students to come forward to do a strike against climate change. But no student was interested, subsequently, Greta decided to do all things by herself and also take a decision to not attended school until the Swedish government actively reduced carbon emissions according to the Paris Agreement. 

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She started her protest by sitting every day outside the Riksdag and she continued it for three weeks while holding the banner ‘‘School Strike for the Climate’’ (Skolstrejk för klimatet).  At the same time, she spread her messages through Instagram and Twitter which went extremely viral and gained international coverage. Her proclamation inspired students over the globe and by the end of 2018, she had successfully motivated over 20,000 students to hold strikes in more than 200 cities.

Since August 2019, she traveled across Europe, gave speeches, mobilized her followers and encouraged them to action, and gradually became an influencer. In October 2018, she was nominated for the Children’s Climate Prize.

But she contradicted to take the honor by saying that finalists had to fly to Stockholm to attend the ceremony which went against her values of leaving a low carbon footprint. In February 2020, many academic students signed an open letter supporting Greta and her acting. Later, she has released a song called ”The 1975” through which she tried to remember the world about the 1975 climate summit. 

In 2018, Greta gave her speech in the plenary session of the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) which went viral and increased her popularity. Since then, Greta has given speeches about climate change at different events such as European Parliament, TEDxSTockholm, Davos, European Economic and Social Committee, Austrian World Summit R20, and Brandenburg Gate. 

In May 2019, she published a compilation of her climate action speeches titled ‘‘No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference’’. The earnings from the book will proceed to charity. The book has inspired millions of people around the globe as well as reached in many bestsellers charts. Right after, Vice released a 30-minutes documentary called ”Make the World Greta Again”.

It was featured by Greta as the main inspiration. In August 2019, Thunberg sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Plymouth, England, to New York, USA, in a racing yacht Malizia II, equipped with solar panels and underwater turbines. The voyage demonstrated the importance of reducing emissions and the possible solutions that can be undertaken. 

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After arriving in New York in fifteen days, Thunberg took part in the UN Climate Action Summit in New York. Afterward, she attended the COP 25 climate change conference in Santiago, Chile. In September 2019, she was collaborated with the movie director George Monbiot to make a short film that focused on the need to protect and restore nature to fight global climate change.

Due to the covid19 pandemic, Greta shifted her protest online. On the eve of the second anniversary of the first school strike for the climate, Thunberg and fellow climate activists Luisa Neubauer, Adélaïde Charlier, and Anuna de Wever van der Heyden met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and announced a plan for their second global climate strike on 25 September 2020.

On 14 December 2020, Greta took to her Twitter handle to criticize the New Zealand Labour Government’s recent climate change emergency declaration as “virtue signaling”. She wrote that New Zealand’s Labour Government had only committed to reducing less than one percent of New Zealand’s carbon emissions by 2025. She was addressed the world and urged the world to change the food production system and to protect animals and their habitats. 

On 28 September 2021, Greta was given her speech at the Youth4Climates Summit in Milan and criticized Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi, British prime minister Boris Johnson, U.S. president Joe Biden, and other world leaders. She said that “They invite cherry-picked young people to meetings like this to pretend they are listening to us. But they are not.” Recently, in November 2021, Greta and other activists filed a petition to the United Nation calling it to declare a level 3 global climate emergency. 

Greta Thunberg Instagram /Twitter

Greta has accumulated millions of followers on social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter. She used this app to spread her movement against climate change. Her activities, inspired youths so much so that she is recognized as one of the prominent influencers. 

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Greta Thunberg Awards and Achievements

Over the course of her activism, Greta has achieved numerous awards and honors. In 2018, she has received a Fryshuset scholarship for Young Role Model of the Year. After that year, she was nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.

In the same year, she was won the Swedish Woman of the Year award, Rachel Carson Prize, Goldene Kamera film and television awards, Fritt Ord Award, TIME 100 award by Time Magazine, Right Livelihood Award, Nordic Council Environment Prize, Glamour Woman of the Year Award 2019, etc. 

Besides this, Greta was listed by Forbes Magazine as The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women