Greta Thunberg is not your typical listee on the Forbes PowerWomen rankings. But she's influential in ways that people 3 times her age are not by mcgrathmag PowerWomen
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Climate Conference on December 11, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. The COP25 conference brings together world leaders, climate activists, NGOs, indigenous people and others for two weeks in an effort to focus global policy makers on concrete steps for heading off a further rise in global temperatures.Most Powerful Women rankingsShe is not an elected official, like German chancellor Angela Merkel. She is not a CEO or founder of a company, like Susan and Anne Wojcicki .
The now-16-year-old started making headlines in her home country, Sweden, when in August 2018 she began boycotting school on Fridays; instead, she’d stand outside of Parliament holding a sign reading “skolstrejk för klimatet,” or “school strike for the climate.” Later that year, she captured international attention with her speech at a UN conference for climate change.
“You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes,” she said at the time. “We have come here to let you know that change is coming, whether you like it or not. The real power belongs to the people.” And it particularly belongs to young people, so many of whom have taken Thunberg’s words to heart. On September 20, 2019, students around the world staged the largest climate change protest in history, with some 4 million people participating in 2,500 events in more than 160 countries on all seven continents.
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