Greta Thunberg said on Monday that she was “extremely honored” to receive the annual Gulbenkian Award.
Stockholm, Sweden:
Climate activist Greta Thunberg received a Portuguese rights award on Monday and quickly pledged the € 1million prize to groups working to protect the environment and stop climate change.
“It’s more money than I can imagine, but all the prizes will go, through my foundation, to different organizations and projects that are working to help people on the front lines affected by the crisis. climate and the ecological crisis, “the Swedish teenager said in a video posted online.
She received the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity for how she “has been able to mobilize the younger generations for the cause of climate change and her tenacious struggle to change a persistent status quo”, said Jorge Sampaio, president of the jury of the price. .
The first 100,000 euros of the prize money will go to the “SOS Amazonia” campaign led by Fridays For Future Brazil to fight against the coronavirus epidemic in the Amazon.
An additional 100,000 euros will go to the Stop Ecocide Foundation “to support their work to make ecocide an international crime,” Thunberg said on Twitter.
The million euros ($ 1.1 million) is the biggest prize won by the 17-year-old environmental activist, who also won Amnesty International’s highest human rights award and the Swedish Right Livelihood award. , often presented as an alternative Nobel Prize.
She said on Monday that she was “extremely honored” to receive the annual Gulbenkian Award.
Thunberg and three other young climate activists on Thursday called on EU leaders to “face the climate emergency”, in an open letter signed by 150 scientists and a host of celebrities.
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