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| Tue, 25th Aug 2020 14:15:00 |
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Greta Thunberg: What she did during her year-long school break |
Her break from the classroom started in August 2019 with a 3,000-mile (4,800km) voyage across the Atlantic.
Then aged 16, she sailed from Plymouth to New York on a zero-emissions yacht, to speak at UN climate summits in New York City and Chile. and she wanted to make sure the carbon footprint of her travel was as small as possible.
From the USA, to Canada - where Greta led a rally as part of the Global Climate Strike in Montreal.
Hundreds of thousands of people joined marches across Canada, and almost a hundred other events took place in cities and towns across the world.
It all started with school strikes, inspired by Greta's "Fridays for Future" movement.
No changes to any government's policies on climate change have been directly attributed to Greta or her activism, but some believe her work in bringing the topic to public attention has been significant.
At the end of 2019, science magazine The New Scientist said that 2019 was the year the public "finally woke up to climate change," largely thanks to the work of Greta and the Extinction Rebellion protest group.
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