A Nobel for Thunberg? In the age of climate change and virus, it is possible

FILE PHOTO: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg holds a poster reading"School strike for Climate", in StockholmOSLO: This year's Nobel Peace Prize could go to green campaigner Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement to highlight the link between environmental damage and the threat to peace and security, experts say.

"There is a relationship between environmental damage and our increasing problem with pandemics and I wonder whether the Nobel Peace Prize Committee might want to highlight that," he told Reuters. Thunberg and her father Svante, who sometimes handles media queries for her, did not reply to requests for comment.

Other possible choices are Reporters Without Borders, Angela Merkel and the World Health Organization, experts said, though it is unclear whether they are nominated.

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