Greta Thunberg, a 16 year old Swedish activist, began protesting in 2018 in response to her country’s hottest summer on record, aiming to draw attention to climate change.

For two weeks, Thunberg sat outside parliament in central Stockholm handing out leaflets reading ‘I am doing this because you adults are sh*tting on my future’, and has since spoken at the UN and Davos, where she told world leaders 'I don't want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day and then I want you to act'. In 2019 Thunberg sparked protests in the UK and around the world with her Fridays for Future campaign, encouraging students to refuse to go to school and demand action on climate change. With another global mobilisation planned for March 15, she claimed ‘We are in the middle of the biggest crisis in human history and basically nothing is being done to prevent it. I think what we are seeing is the beginning of great changes’.