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GRETA THUNBERG has continued to be a global
Greta Thunberg rose to fame at the age of 15 when she skipped school to protest about climate change , staging a long School Strike for Climate protest outside the Swedish parliament . She said that she would be continuing school striking for the climate every Friday until Sweden was in compliance with the 2015 Paris climate agreement .
Her protests sparked a youth movement called Fridays for Future and catapulted Greta onto the world stage . When she sailed on a carbonfree yacht from Plymouth , UK , to the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit in New York and said “ how dare you ?” to world leaders , she went viral .
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climate activist and has received numerous honours and awards , been named as Time Person of the Year and received multiple nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize .
“ HOW DARE YOU ?”
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