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Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been TIME magazine's Person of the Year for 2019. The 16-year-old from Sweden New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the Hong Kong democracy protestors to the award. Ms Thunberg to fame in 2018 for raising people's awareness of the threat to the planet from climate change. She a global movement when she to go on a climate strike outside the Swedish parliament in August 2018. Schoolchildren around the world then her example. She has since the United Nations in New York and has the Pope. After hearing about the award, she tweeted: "Wow, this is unbelievable! I will this great honour."

Greta Thunberg is the youngest person ever to the award. TIME magazine about why it gave the prize to Ms Thunberg. It said she has, " in creating a global attitudinal shift" in millions of people to join a "worldwide movement calling for urgent change". It added: "Greta has a moral call to those who willing to act, and put shame on those who are not." Not everyone happy with Ms Thunberg receiving the award. Donald Trump Jr said TIME was a teenager "as a marketing gimmick". In contrast, Hillary Clinton : "I am grateful for all she's to raise awareness of the climate crisis, and her willingness to tell hard, motivating truths."