Greta Thunberg has turned down an environmental award and prize money because “the climate movement does not need any more awards”.
She said the offer was a “great honour” and thanked the Nordic Council, which said it respected her decision.
But, she said, “politicians and the people in power” need to listen to the “current, best-available science”.
Ms Thunberg was this year’s favourite to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but the award went to Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed.
In an Instagram post explaining her decision to turn down the prize money of 500,000 Swedish kronor (£40,000; €46,000), Ms Thunberg said: “The Nordic countries have a great reputation around the world when it comes to climate and environmental issues.
“There is no lack of bragging about this. There is no lack of beautiful words.”
But she said Nordic energy consumption told “a whole other story”.
She referenced a report from from WWF and the Global Footprint Network, which says Sweden, along with most of the Nordic region, lives as if the world has the resources of four planets.
The gap between what science said was needed to limit a global temperature increase and what was being implemented was “gigantic”, said Ms Thunberg.
“We belong to the countries that have the possibility to do the most. And yet our countries still basically do nothing,” she added.
The president of the Nordic Council, Hans Wallmark, said the organisation respected Greta Thunberg’s decision and called her movement “a good cause for everyone”.
He said the council – which encourages co-operation between parliaments in countries including Denmark, Finland and Ms Thunberg’s home country Sweden – would think carefully about what to do with the prize money.
© BBC International
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Most of our power cosumption in Scandinavia is for heating our homes. Global warming may change this trend. 😀
Electricity is not the most efficient means to heat homes. A lot depends on the energy source to genetate the electricity. Each exchange of energy introduces a loss. Transformers to step up and step down voltage also introduce losses. If some carbon source fuel is used, you still have carbon emissions. Burning wood chips to fuel a generator that would normally be burnt in logging operations, introduces a cleaner burn along with the byproduct of electric power.
There is way more at stake than what the greenies are selling.
But we both agree global warming exists. We now can argue whether it’s man made or not, but we can’t deny it. Blowing more carbon emissions into the skies will hardly relax the mess. My point is : either we take climate change seriously or a nuclear holocaust will look like a picnic…
In Norway almost 100% is hydropower, oil and gas is only what we sell to other nations to make money 🙂
https://www.nbim.no/en/
Stop selling it! When the ‘liberation’ from Islam begins we will be cut off from the Saudis. Better keep it on stock and use wind and hydro. 😉
We can turn of the gas to Denmark, then it will be cold for you during the winter 😀
Not really. We can drill the crap out of Greenland to survive for centuries. But thanks for the advice. 😂
Greenland belongs to Norway, it was stolen by the Danes 😀
Who cares. We had to protect danish speakers. 😀
They was talking Old Norwegian, almost the same language as on Iceland 😉 Now they speak with a hot potato in their mouth, just as they do in the pancake country 😀
Potatoes are good for digestion. 😂
You must read this article!
https://stoehr.substack.com/p/vindman-exposes-trumps-false-narrative
If someone say they support Ukraine it impossible to support Trump!
Danmark, Danmark über alles! 😂
Seriously. Trump fucked up. But i doubt he will be impeached, since there is no majority in Congress or the Senate.
It’s a majority in the House for impeachment but not for the trial in the Senate
Same as in Sweden. 😂