STOCKHOLM: Local weather activist Greta Thunberg is to characteristic on a set of stamps issued by Sweden’s postal service.
She’s going to be part of a corridor of fame of Swedish personalities, from Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Greta Garbo, who’ve been depicted on the nation’s postage stamps.
The stamps go on sale from PostNord on Thursday and present Thunberg in her acquainted yellow raincoat standing on a rocky coast looking at a flock of birds.
“We hope that, as a giant firm, we are able to shine a lightweight on the crucial local weather query, with the assistance of a bit of stamp,” stated Kristina Olofsdotter, head of PostNord’s stamp division.
A number of million of the stamps can be issued, Olofsdotter stated, including: “There can be numerous Gretas flying round.”
Thunberg rose to world fame in 2018 after she started skipping college to protest, alone with a selfmade signal, exterior the Swedish parliament in Stockholm, demanding that her authorities take motion on local weather change.
Inside months, greater than 2 million college students in 135 nations had arrange their very own picket strains, becoming a member of Thunberg’s “Faculty strike for the local weather” marketing campaign.
In 2019, Thunberg took a yr out from college to cross the globe by automobile, practice and boat – however not aircraft – to demand motion on local weather change, a visit that concerned a brush with U.S. President Donald Trump and a speech on the United Nations local weather summit.
Thunberg’s motion, Fridays for Future, authorised of the picture on the stamp however performed no half in its design, Olofsdotter stated.
Different stamps within the assortment have an environmental theme, together with depictions of Swedish mountains, lakes and forests. (
She’s going to be part of a corridor of fame of Swedish personalities, from Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Greta Garbo, who’ve been depicted on the nation’s postage stamps.
The stamps go on sale from PostNord on Thursday and present Thunberg in her acquainted yellow raincoat standing on a rocky coast looking at a flock of birds.
“We hope that, as a giant firm, we are able to shine a lightweight on the crucial local weather query, with the assistance of a bit of stamp,” stated Kristina Olofsdotter, head of PostNord’s stamp division.
A number of million of the stamps can be issued, Olofsdotter stated, including: “There can be numerous Gretas flying round.”
Thunberg rose to world fame in 2018 after she started skipping college to protest, alone with a selfmade signal, exterior the Swedish parliament in Stockholm, demanding that her authorities take motion on local weather change.
Inside months, greater than 2 million college students in 135 nations had arrange their very own picket strains, becoming a member of Thunberg’s “Faculty strike for the local weather” marketing campaign.
In 2019, Thunberg took a yr out from college to cross the globe by automobile, practice and boat – however not aircraft – to demand motion on local weather change, a visit that concerned a brush with U.S. President Donald Trump and a speech on the United Nations local weather summit.
Thunberg’s motion, Fridays for Future, authorised of the picture on the stamp however performed no half in its design, Olofsdotter stated.
Different stamps within the assortment have an environmental theme, together with depictions of Swedish mountains, lakes and forests. (
