Stockholm - Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg turned
17 on Friday, but kept to her routine and stood outside parliament in
Stockholm for her weekly protest.
"School strike week 72," she tweeted, posting a photo of herself
holding a hand-painted sign that read "school strike for climate."
Thunberg staged her first school strike in August 2018.
Schools in the Swedish capital were on Friday still off for Christmas
holidays.
Last month she returned to Sweden after being away for four and a
half months.
%%%twitter https://twitter.com/hashtag/climatestrike?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#climatestrike #klimatstrejk #FridaysForFuture pic.twitter.com/5jej011Qtp
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg)
While away from Sweden, Thunberg has spoken at climate meetings from
Switzerland to New York, and most recently addressed the UN Climate
Conference in Madrid and a rally in Turin, Italy.
In December, she was named Time magazine's person of the year for her
role in creating a global movement to draw attention to climate
change by skipping school on Fridays.
Thunberg doesn't fly for environmental reasons and completed two
trans-Atlantic voyages in 2019.
From New York, where she spoke at a UN climate summit, Thunberg
attended other engagements in Montreal, Canada, and then travelled
across the US to Los Angeles.
Madrid took over as host city for the UN climate conference from
Santiago, Chile, which was cancelled due to unrest in the South
American country.