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More than 17,000 students in 24 countries take part in Friday school strikes. Thunberg begins speaking at high-profile events across Europe, including U.N. climate talks in Poland.
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Thunberg begins a regular ‘strike’ from classes every Friday to protest climate issues. She invites other students to join her weekly “Fridays for Future” campaign by staging walkouts at their own schools.
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Swedish student Thunberg, then aged 15, skips school to protest outside parliament for more action against climate change.
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She is joined by fellow students, teachers and parents at another protest and begins attracting media attention for her climate campaign.
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Thunberg is named one of the world’s most influential people by Time magazine, appearing on its cover. “Now I am speaking to the whole world,” she wrote on Twitter.
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Conservative and far-right lawmakers urge a boycott of Thunberg’s appearance in the French parliament, mocking her as a “guru of the apocalypse” and a “Nobel prize of fear”.
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Thunberg is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. The number of students taking part in school strikes hits more than 2 million people across 135 countries.
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Protests directly inspired by Thunberg take place across more than 30 countries, from Sweden to Brazil, India and the United States.
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Thunberg hits back at “hate and conspiracy campaigns” after by conservative Australian commentator Andrew Bolt described her as a “deeply disturbed messiah”.
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Some 450 young climate activists from 37 European countries gather in Switzerland to discuss the movement’s development.
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Thunberg sets sail from Britain for the United States to take part in a U.N. climate summit. Meanwhile, the total number of climate strikers reaches 3.6 million people across 169 countries.
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Thunberg arrives at New York Harbor in a zero-carbon emissions vessel, completing a nearly 14-day journey from England to take part in a U.N. climate summit.
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Thunberg takes her mission to U.S. President Donald Trump’s doorstep with a protest outside the White House.
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Thunberg is one of four students invited to a U.S. congressional hearing to provide the next generation’s views on climate change.
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Thunberg delivers a speech to leaders at the U.N. summit, accusing them of having “stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words”.
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Thunberg hits back at mockery from the U.S. President Donald Trump, changing her Twitter biography to quote his comments.
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Thunberg is named as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, known as Sweden’s alternative Nobel Prize.
