Greta Thunberg: No school leaving certificate but the next honorary doctorate – this time in theology

The Theological Faculty of the Finnish University of Helsinki informs on its website that it will award eight honorary doctorates on June 9, 2023. One of the dignitaries under consideration is the globally active Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.

According to tradition, “several personalities will be awarded the title ‘Doktor honoris causa’, the highest honor of the university,” as part of the award ceremonies, according to the announcement. This year, “a total of 30 outstanding personalities from all over the world will be awarded honorary doctorates,” including the chosen Greta Thunberg.

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The climate activist will be attending high school in her hometown of Stockholm in Sweden until the summer of 2023, so she has not yet had a valid school leaving certificate in her much-decorated existence. In the summer of 2018, Thunberg began to protest in front of the Swedish parliament in Stockholm and attracted international attention with a targeted accompanying media campaign. In the same year she started her so-called “school strike for the climate”, only to meet the youth delegate for the German Society for the United Nations, Luisa Neubauer, purely by chance in December 2018 at the world climate summit in Katowice, Poland.

In 2019, Thunberg received the Alternative Nobel Prize and the German Sustainability Prize. Furthermore, the honorary award of the “About You Awards 2019” in the category “Empowerment” for her commitment as the initiator of the “Fridays for Future” movement. In October of the same year she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Belgian University of Mons. In December, the Amnesty honorary title “Ambassador of Conscience” followed, as well as the German “Golden Camera” and the award “Woman of the Year” in Sweden.

For a short time, the young, busy businesswoman was also considered a hot candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, which was pushed by the media, but to the great disappointment of her worldwide fan base, this did not happen.

On the other hand, the multi-award-winner rejected the environmental prize offered by the Nordic Council for 2019 because, according to Thunberg, the climate movement “does not need more prizes and nice words”, but that politics must start “listening to science and acting accordingly”. . And at the German Documentary Film Prize 2021, the Swedish director Nathan Grossman received the main prize for his film “I am Greta”.

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