If the committee wanted to highlight this trend, he said, "there is obviously the temptation of Greta Thunberg". "There is a relationship between environmental damage and our increasing problem with pandemics and I wonder whether the Nobel Peace Prize Committee might want to highlight that," he told Reuters. In the era of the coronavirus crisis, the committee could also choose to highlight the threat of pandemics to peace and security, said Dan Smith, the director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. But pair her most recent speech up with some vocal distortion over Swedish death metal and she's downright. The committee has given the prize to environmentalists before, starting with Kenya's Wangari Maathai in 2004 for her campaign to plant 30 million trees across Africa, and in 2007 to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg is already a force to be reckoned with. "Not a single person has done more to get the world to focus on climate change than her," Sveen told Reuters. West Coast wildfires and rising temperatures in the Arctic "leaving people in no doubt" about global warming. The Swedish 17-year-old was nominated by three Norwegian lawmakers and two Swedish parliamentarians and if she wins, she would receive it at the same age as Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel laureate thus far.Īsle Sveen, a historian and author of several books about the prize, said Thunberg would be a strong candidate for this year's award, her second nomination in as many years, with the U.S. The winner of the $1 million prize, arguably the world's top accolade, will be announced in Oslo on Oct. It has since become a global protest.OSLO (Reuters) - This year's Nobel Peace Prize could go to green campaigner Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement to highlight the link between environmental damage and the threat to peace and security, some experts say. The Fridays for Future movement started in 2018 when Thunberg began a school strike in Sweden to push for action on climate. The committee has given the prize to environmentalists before, starting with Kenya's Wangari Maathai in 2004 for her campaign to plant 30 million trees across Africa, and in 2007 to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
But pair her most recent speech up with some vocal distortion over. The winner of the $1 million prize, arguably the world's top accolade, will be announced in Oslo on Oct. By Ellie Houghtaling on SeptemTeenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg is already a force to be reckoned with. OSLO (Reuters) - This year's Nobel Peace Prize could go to green campaigner Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement to highlight the link between environmental damage and the threat to peace and security, some experts say.
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