Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl who galvanised a movement to fight climate change, is tipped to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which she was nominated for by three Norwegian MPs back in March.

The environmental campaigner is reportedly the bookies' favourite to pick up the award next week, with Ladbrokes citing odds of 4/6 for her to win, according to The Daily Mail.

Per the bookmaker, Thunberg's rousing speech at the UN conference pushed her to the forefront to win the prestigious award.

Watch Thunberg rebuke world leaders:

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During the emotional address, Thunberg condemned world leaders for not doing enough to combat climate change, dubbing it a "betrayal" of young people.

The teenager told governments that "You are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal."

"This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you?" she continued.

"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. And if you choose to fail us, I say, we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line."

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The UN summit was organised to encourage countries to address the climate crisis as scientists issue increasingly urgent warnings. A recent UN investigation found that commitments to cut world-warming gases must be at least tripled if we are to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris agreement to maintain the global temperature rise to 2C, at most, above the pre-industrial era.

Per the UN, the planet is on track to warm by as much as 3.4C by the end of this century. They warn that this could incite heatwaves, flooding, and droughts which could prove to be disastrous, as well as escalating the extinction of coral reefs and other species.

Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The 17-year-old's nomination was made by Swedish politicians Jens Holm and Hakan Svenneling from the country's Left Party.

As per the Evening Standard, they said that they nominated Thunberg because she "worked hard to make politicians open their eyes to the climate crisis" and because of the actions she has taken towards "reducing our emissions and complying with the Paris Agreement is therefore also an act of making peace."

In the video below, Thunberg rebukes world leaders for failing to tackle the climate change crisis: 

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The nomination comes after Thunberg was named Time's 2019 Person of the Year.

TIME's editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal wrote of that award: "When she first heard about global warming as an eight-year-old, Thunberg says she thought: 'That can't be happening, because if that were happening, then the politicians would be taking care of it.'

"That they weren't is precisely what motivated her to act, as it has youth the world over who are forcing us to confront the peril of our own inaction, from the student-led protests on the streets of Santiago, Chile, to the young democracy activists fighting for rights and representation in Hong Kong to the high schoolers from Parkland, Fla., whose march against gun violence Thunberg cites as an inspiration for her climate strikes."

Thunberg was the youngest person to ever receive that prestigious award.

However, Thunberg has not been without her critics: 

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This is not the first time that Thunberg has been nominated for the Global Peace Prize. She also received the honor in 2019, but lost out to Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed Ali.

Last month, Thunberg continued her mission to tackle the climate crisis by speaking to world leaders at the World Economic Forum. The 17-year-old had particularly harsh criticism for President Trump's for removing the US from the Paris Agreement in 2017.

She said that his "inaction" is "fuelling the flames" of the climate change crisis.

Greta Thunberg - the teenage climate activist from Sweden, who condemned world leaders for not taking enough action as far as tackling climate change is concerned - was earlier today named as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award.

The honour is an immense one, not least because the award in question is known as Sweden’s 'alternative Nobel Prize'. Furthermore, each of the four winners will receive a million kronor (roughly $100,000).

This is the moment Greta Thunberg criticised world leaders at a climate summit at the United Nations in New York:

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"People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth," Thunberg said in her profound speech.

"How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight," she continued. "You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act then you would be evil and that I refuse to believe."

What many also picked up on was that when the 16-year-old spotted President Donald Trump, who once said climate change was a hoax invented by the Chinese, she appeared to give him this no-nonsense glare:

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In any case, Thunberg won the award "for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts," the Right Livelihood Foundation said in a statement, according to Reuters.

Thunberg began protesting outside Swedish parliament about a year ago. Inspired by the young activist, millions of young people all over the world took to the streets to demand their governments to take action in the fight against climate change.

Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has been named Time's 'Person of the Year'.

At the age of just 16, Thunberg has received the prestigious award after capturing the world's attention at the UN climate change summit where she pleaded with world leaders to take action on the crisis. In addition to this, she founded an international movement which saw young people around the world strike for the sake of protecting the planet for future generations.

In the video below, Thunberg slams world leaders for failing to tackle the climate change crisis: 

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Editor-in-chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal said: "For sounding the alarm about humanity's predatory relationship with the only home we have, for bringing to a fragmented world a voice that transcends backgrounds and borders, for showing us all what it might look like when a new generation leads, Greta Thunberg is TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year."

Greta's global strike campaign began in August 2018 when she refused to attend school and sat outside the Swedish parliament instead.

But Thunberg has not been without her critics and her mural was graffitied by vandals: 

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The magazine added: "In the 16 months since, she has addressed heads of state at the U.N., met with the Pope, sparred with the President of the United States and inspired 4 million people to join the global climate strike on September 20, 2019, in what was the largest climate demonstration in human history."

The news comes as the 16-year-old takes yet another swipe at world leaders for "misleading the public" with discussions unlikely to result in any tangible change at the COP25 talks in Madrid today and "not behaving as if we are in an emergency", as per the Metro.

Thunberg said that at "even at 1C people are dying from the climate crisis" and if the rise in temperature goes to 1.5C, the damage caused could be completely irreparable.

She added: "Finding holistic solutions is what the COP should be all about, but instead it seems to have turned some kind of opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition.

"Countries are finding clever ways around having to take real action, like double-counting emissions reductions, and moving emissions overseas, and walking back on their promises to increase ambitions, or refusing to pay for solutions or loss and damage.

"This has to stop."

Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has refused the offer of a $50,000 environmental award prize over her campaigning.

The 16-year-old was recently honored by the Nordic Council, a regional body for inter-parliamentary cooperation, at a ceremony in Stockholm. However, despite saying the offer was a "great honour", Thunberg opted to turn down the award and prize money.

Watch Greta Thunberg's inspiring speech to world leaders:

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In a statement posted to her official Instagram account, Thunberg wrote: "The climate movement does not need any more awards. What we need is for our politicians and the people in power start to listen to the current, best available science. The Nordic countries have a great reputation around the world when it comes to climate and environmental issues."

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She continued:  "The gap between what the science says is needed to limit the increase of global temperature rise to below 1,5 or even 2 degrees - and politics that run the Nordic countries is gigantic. And there are still no signs whatsoever of the changes required. The Paris Agreement, which all of the Nordic countries have signed, is based on the aspect of equity, which means that richer countries must lead the way."

She added: "We belong to the countries that have the possibility to do the most. And yet our countries still basically do nothing. So until you start to act in accordance with what the science says is needed to limit the global temperature rise below 1,5 degrees or even 2 degrees celsius, I - and Fridays For Future in Sweden - choose not to accept the Nordic Councils environmental award nor the prize money of 500 000 Swedish kronor."

Watch this news report about the people who vandalized a mural of Thunberg in Canada:

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This news comes just a few weeks after Thunberg missed out on winning the Nobel Peace Prize, after she was considered to be the bookie's favorite for the famous humanitarian award.