Digital Greta

Greta Thunberg — the Swedish climate activist whose 2018 school strike became a global movement. Neutral, sourced, and honest about what the record shows.

What this site is

This is a reference site about Greta Thunberg (born 3 January 2003, Stockholm, Sweden), the climate activist whose solitary school strike outside the Swedish parliament in August 2018 grew into the Fridays for Future movement. It is written in an encyclopedic tone, keeps personal-life coverage minimal and factual, attributes every quotation to its published venue and date, and attributes climate-science claims to the IPCC and peer-reviewed sources rather than asserting them itself.

How to use it

• New here? Start with Start Here.
• The full story: Biography and the dated Timeline.
• Her words, verbatim: Sayings.
• The movement: School Strike, Fridays for Future, Activism Tactics.
• The big speeches: UN Speeches and Davos.
• The voyages and the later years: Transatlantic Voyage, Later Activism, Gaza Flotilla.
• The controversies, presented with both sides: Criticism and Response.
• The character behind this site: Stream — including the Vizlings app card, quoted verbatim, and the status of the character stream.

A note on the Vizlings character

This site accompanies the “Greta” character in the Vizlings app — the app’s card gives the first name only, identified here as Greta Thunberg on the balance of evidence (see Methodology). The character artwork on this site is either real photography from Wikimedia Commons or clearly labeled AI-generated dramatization art in the app’s animated style — never photorealistic images of the real person.

Source notes

Every page ends with source notes. Contested or reported-but-unconfirmed material is labeled as such. Sources lists the outlets and records used; Methodology explains the editorial standards, including the living-person policy.