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Detailed explanation-1: -Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named winner of the inaugural Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is honored to have been declared a co-laureate of the 2022 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, together with the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

Detailed explanation-3: -Thunberg, 16, received the prize from the Stockholm-based Right Livelihood Foundation-established in 1980 after the Nobel Foundation rejected a proposal to create an environmental prize-for “inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Greta Thunberg, in full Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, (born January 3, 2003, Stockholm, Sweden), Swedish environmental activist who worked to address the problem of climate change, founding (2018) a movement known as Fridays for Future (also called School Strike for Climate).