Thursday. 21.11.2024

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg is returning to school after a year off, she announced on Twitter on Monday.

"My gap year from school is over, and it feels so great to finally be back in school again!" the 17-year-old wrote.

Thunberg commenced her first year of high school a few days after her peers in Stockholm, who returned after summer vacation last week, as she was in Germany to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel and also lead a climate strike in Berlin.

The teenager had spent the past year off school dedicated to the fight against climate change, starting in August 2019 with a trip via boat to New York to take part in a UN climate summit, where she repeated the phrase "how dare you" to condemn world leaders in a widely-viewed speech.

Nominated for a Nobel Prize

Thunberg met with climate activists across Europe and the Americas during the year and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Previously, she began a global movement to draw attention to climate change by skipping school on Fridays and staged her first school strike in August 2018.

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg back at school after year off