Two members of parliament in Sweden have nominated Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.

Key points: Ms Thunberg founded the Fridays for Future movement that has inspired climate change action by young people

Ms Thunberg founded the Fridays for Future movement that has inspired climate change action by young people The two nominators say Ms Thunberg's work opening the eyes of politicians to the climate crisis is "an act of making peace"

The two nominators say Ms Thunberg's work opening the eyes of politicians to the climate crisis is "an act of making peace" The winner is announced at the beginning of October

Jens Holm and Hakan Svenneling, who are both members of Sweden's Left Party, said Ms Thunberg "has worked hard to make politicians open their eyes to the climate crisis" and "action for reducing our emissions and complying with the Paris Agreement is therefore also an act of making peace".

The 2015 landmark Paris climate deal asks both rich and poor countries to take action to curb the rise in global temperatures that are melting glaciers, raising sea levels and shifting rainfall patterns.

It requires governments to present national plans to reduce emissions to limit the global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.

Ms Thunberg, 17, has encouraged students to skip school to join protests that demand faster action on climate change, a movement that has spread beyond Sweden to other European nations and around the world.

She founded the Fridays for Future movement that has inspired similar actions by other young people.

Any national member of parliament can nominate somebody for the Nobel Peace Prize, and three members of the Norwegian Parliament nominated Ms Thunberg last year.

Last year she lost the Nobel Prize to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for ending a 20-year-long conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.

In 2019, she was among four people named as the winners of a Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "Alternative Nobel" and she was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year".

The Norwegian Nobel Committee does not publicly comment on nominations, which for 2020 had to be submitted by February 1.

According to the organisation's website, at the beginning of October the Nobel Committee chooses the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates through a majority vote.

The decision is final and without appeal — then the names are announced.

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