Greta Thunberg has been awarded a Portuguese legal rights award and immediately pledged the €1m ($1.15m) prize to groups operating to guard the surroundings and halt local weather adjust.

“That is additional dollars than I can begin to picture, but all the prize cash will be donated, by means of my foundation, to distinct organisations and initiatives who are operating to aid persons on the entrance line, affected by the weather disaster and ecological crisis,” the Swedish teenager stated in a video posted on the net on Monday.

She was awarded the Gulbenkian prize for humanity for the way she “has been capable to mobilise youthful generations for the lead to of climate improve and her tenacious struggle to alter a status quo that persists”, Jorge Sampaio, chair of the prize jury, said before.

The first €100,000 of the prize dollars will go to the “SOS Amazonia” marketing campaign led by Fridays For Future Brazil to tackle the coronavirus outbreak in the Amazon.

One more €100,000 will go to the Halt Ecocide Basis “to guidance their perform to make ecocide an international crime”, Thunberg claimed on Twitter.

The €1m is the major prize won by the 17-calendar year-old environmental campaigner who has also gained Amnesty International’s leading human rights prize and the Swedish Suitable Livelihood Award, frequently offered as an different Nobel.

She stated on Monday she was “extremely honoured” to acquire the once-a-year Gulbenkian prize.

Thunberg and three other younger climate activists on Thursday released an appeal to EU leaders to “face up to the weather emergency”, in an open up letter signed by 150 researchers and a host of celebrities.