Greta Thunberg has pledged to give a $1m prize she just won to groups that are working to halt climate change and protect the environment, it is revealed.
Thunberg, 17, was awarded the Gulbenkian prize for humanity (a Portugese award) for the away that she has "been able to mobilise younger generations for the cause of climate change and her tenacious struggle to alter a status quo that persists,” said chair of the prize jury Jorge Sampaio.
Watch Greta Thunberg slam world leaders over their inaction on climate change:And Greta Thunberg has already announced her intention to donate the prize fund to climate groups, posting a video to Twitter to express her gratitude for the award. Per the Guardian, she said in the video;
“That is more money than I can begin to imagine, but all the prize money will be donated, through my foundation, to different organisations and projects who are working to help people on the front line, affected by the climate crisis and ecological crisis,”
In a series of tweets, Thunberg wrote of the news;
"I’m extremely honoured to receive the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity. We’re in a climate emergency, and my foundation will as quickly as possible donate all the prize money of 1 million Euros to support ...
"... organisations and projects that are fighting for a sustainable world, defending nature and supporting people already facing the worst impacts of the climate- and ecological crisis - particularly those living in the Global South.
"Starting with giving €100.000 to the SOS Amazonia Campaign led by Fridays For Future Brazil to tackle Covid-19 in the Amazon, and €100.000 to the Stop Ecocide Foundation to support their work to make ecocide an international crime."
Thunberg has also previously won Amnesty International’s top human rights prize, as well as the Swedish Right Livelihood Award - which is often dubbed as an alternative to the Nobel prize.
