Experts are cautious, but bookies have tipped teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg for the Nobel Peace Prize next week.

Odds from bookmakers such as Ladbrokes suggest the 16-year-old activist is the one to beat for the award, just a week after she launched a furious tirade at international delegates during a UN climate summit.

The teenager provoked controversy with her angry speech at the UN and was dragged into a Twitter feud with US President Donald Trump.

Russian President Vladimir Putin also criticised her yesterday for what he said was a failure to understand the complex modern world.

Thunberg, pictured here meeting a pig called Esther, could win but experts are yet to confirm whether there is a tenable link between climate change and violent conflict

The 16-year-old climate activist has gained international recognition for her work raising awareness of the climate crisis

Thunberg could hardly contain her anger as she walked into the summit behind Trump. He was not scheduled to participate in the summit that seeks international action against global warming, but attended the conference for just 15 minutes

Bookmakers say that 16-year-old climate activist, Greta Thunberg, will win the Nobel Peace Prize for her'Fridays for Future' movement where she implemented a school strike to raise awareness of the climate disaster

During her presentation, she roared ferociously at delegates: 'How dare you?! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing.'

'And if you choose to fail us, I say, we will never forgive you,' she added.

The 16-year-old also broke down in tears of rage during her verbal onslaught.

The environmental activist choked on tears while speaking at the United Nations Climate Summit on Monday, where she thundered against leaders for stealing her generation's future

Thunberg participates in a climate strike outside the United Nations in New York at the end of August. She won Amnesty International's highest honour earlier this month

Thunberg can be seen speaking at a climate protest outside the White House in Washington. During the UN summit she accused world leaders of stealing her childhood

She is tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize after launching a school strike that inspired millions to join her 'Fridays for Future' movement.

The movement implores school-age children to take time off of school to demonstrate and demand action to prevent further climate change.

Thunberg started the movement by striking alone outside the Swedish parliament last August and has mobilised millions of children since.

Thunberg won Amnesty International's highest honour earlier this month and bookies reckon this will follow through, bagging her the highest acclaim for a peace keeping.

However, the prediction carries a great deal of uncertainty, since the list of candidates isn't made public and experts are still divided over whether climate and violent conflict can be directly linked.

Just last week she testified before Congress. Instead of giving a speech she submitted the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Global Warming as her testimony

At Friday's climate change action protest in Paris, France one protester held up an image of Thunberg as a saint with the words 'Our House is on Fire' written in a halo

'What she has done over the past year is extraordinary,' said Dan Smith, the director of Stockholm international peace research institute SIPRI.

'Climate change is an issue which is strongly related to security and peace.'

However, his counterpart at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Henrik Urdal, said he didn't think she would win.

'Extremely unlikely,' he said, noting her young age and the fact that a link between climate change and armed conflict remains unproven.

Environment activist Greta Thunberg made a fiery appearance at the United Nations Climate Summit on Monday where she glared at Donald Trump when he walked into the UN headquarters in front of her

Monday's UN Summit sought to get nations to agree to a plan of action to curb the rising number of global emissions that contribute to global warming. Thunberg pictured right on stage with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (far left)

In a sarcastic tweet soon after the teenager's speech, US President Donald Trump mocked the schoolgirl, saying: 'She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!'

Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin chimed in, calling her a 'poorly informed teenager' who was being used by adults.

Putin said the 16-year-old should 'tell developing counties why they should live in poverty' over her campaign to cut fossil fuel use.

Putin told the energy conference, adding it was deplorable that Thunberg was being used by some groups - which he did not name - to achieve their own goals.