Why didn’t Greta Thunberg win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Greta Thunberg a teenage climate activist was the odds-on favorite to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

The award would have topped an already extraordinary year for Greta, in which she evolved from a student sitting outside the Swedish parliament, all by herself, to become the leader of a global youth movement, inspiring millions of schoolchildren around the world to join her in calling for greater action on climate change.

“How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” she told world leaders in a blistering speech at the United Nations last month.

However instead of giving the prize on the 16-year-old Swede, the Norwegian Nobel Committee gave it to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who was praised for his efforts to “achieve peace and international cooperation.”