Greta Thunberg gives €1m award money to climate groups

Influential climate campaigner says Gulbenkian rights award gave her more money than I can begin to imagine'

Greta Thunberg has been awarded a Portuguese rights award and promptly pledged the 1m ($1.15m) prize to groups working to protect the environment and halt climate change.

That is more money than I can begin to imagine, but all the prize money will be donated, through my foundation, to different organisations and projects who are working to help people on the front line, affected by the climate crisis and ecological crisis," the Swedish teenager said in a video posted online on Monday.