Sources

What this site is built on — and where to check it yourself.

Primary records and transcripts

• UN Climate Action Summit transcript — Thunberg’s address, 2019-09-23 (United Nations).
• World Economic Forum — published transcripts and video of her addresses, Davos 2019-01-25 and 2020-01-21.
• European Parliament — session records of her address, Strasbourg, 2019-04-16.
• COP24 plenary records — Katowice, 2018-12-12.
• TEDxStockholm — “School strike for climate – save the world by changing the rules,” November 2018.
• IPCC — Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (2018) and subsequent assessment reports, cited for all climate-science claims.
• UNFCCC — COP venue and scheduling records (COP24 Katowice, COP25 Madrid, COP26 Glasgow).
• Thunberg’s own books — No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (2019); The Climate Book (2022); family memoir Scenes from the Heart (Malena Ernman and Svante Thunberg, 2018).
• Thunberg’s public social-media posts — cited individually with dates where used as primary sources (e.g., 2019-08-31, December 2019 bio change).
• Israeli Foreign Ministry statements — June and October 2025, on the flotilla interceptions (cited as the official Israeli account).
• Freedom Flotilla Coalition / Global Sumud Flotilla organizers’ statements — 2025 (cited as the organizers’ account).
• City of London Police statements — December 2025, on the Terrorism Act arrest (cited as the police account).

News reporting

Contemporary reporting from Associated Press, Reuters, PA Media, the BBC, The Guardian, TIME, and Swedish outlets (Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter) for dates, events, court outcomes, and quotations. Wire reporting is preferred for the 2024–2026 events. Commentary and opinion pieces are used only to document that a criticism or response exists — never as factual sources.

Image provenance

See the image captions for credits and context. Illustrated character art is a dramatization.

What is not a source here

Anonymous social-media claims, unsourced viral posts, and partisan blogs are not used as factual sources. Where a claim circulates but cannot be verified from a reputable source, it is omitted — see Methodology for the omission policy.

Source notes

This page is itself a source note. Individual pages cite their key sources in their own closing “Source notes” sections; this page lists the standing corpus.