She was nominated by three Norwegian MPs. If she were to win, she would be the youngest recipient since Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai, who was 17 when she received the prize.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
The Swedish teenager - who on her Twitter page describes herself as "a
16-year-old climate activist with Asperger [syndrome]" - first staged a school strike for the climate in front of the Swedish parliament in August last year.
Since then, she has been missing lessons most Fridays to stage her regular protests.
She continued to gain international attention after speaking at the UN Climate Talks in Poland in December and at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January.
16-year-old climate activist with Asperger [syndrome]" - first staged a school strike for the climate in front of the Swedish parliament in August last year.
Since then, she has been missing lessons most Fridays to stage her regular protests.
She continued to gain international attention after speaking at the UN Climate Talks in Poland in December and at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January.
"On climate change, we have to acknowledge that we have failed," she told global economic leaders in Davos.
Listen to her speech at Davos
Learning vocabulary
Hangman Game
Environment word games:
- Jumbled sentence: carbon dioxide
- Jumbled sentence: fossil fuels
- Jumbled sentence: environment award
- Word search: global warming
- Word search: pollution
- Quiz: climate change vocabulary
- Missing words: climate change
- Missing words: climate change - printable
- Missing words: ways to preserve our planet
- Missing words: ways to preserve our planet - printable
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