The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named as one of the winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, often called an 'alternative Nobel Prize'.
According to the Right Livelihood Award Foundation on Wednesday, Thunberg won the award,..."for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts".
She will receive her prize in Stockholm on December, along with cash award of 103-thousand U.S. dollars.
Earlier at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York on Monday, she gave a fiery speech,... shaming world leaders for today's political failure to stop climate change.
