Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenage activist whose Friday school strikes protesting government inaction over climate change helped sparked a worldwide movement, received the Freedom Prize in France on Sunday.
Flanked by two WWII veterans who sponsor the prize, she accepted the award at a ceremony in the northwestern city of Caen, Normandy.
"This prize is not only for me," Thunberg said.
"This is for the whole Fridays for Future movement, because this we have achieved together."
Paying tribute to their sacrifice, she said: "The least we can do to honour them is to stop destroying that same world that Charles, Leon and their friends and colleagues fought so hard to save for us."
"And yet the link between climate and ecological emergency and mass migration, famine and war is still not clear to many people. This must change."
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