Isabelle Axelsson

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Isabelle Axelsson
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Born (2001-01-14) 14 January 2001 (age 22)
Stockholm, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
OccupationClimate activist
Movement Fridays for Future

Isabelle Axelsson (born 14 January 2001) [1] is a Swedish climate activist from Stockholm. [2] [3]

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Biography

Axelsson has been an activist and an organiser of Fridays for Future Sweden since December 2018. [4] [5] In late January 2020, she attended the World Economic Forum in Davos along with other climate activists, namely Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Loukina Tille and Vanessa Nakate. [6] [7]

She was the contributor to a book titled "Gemeinsam für die Zukunft – Fridays For Future und Scientists For Future: Vom Stockholmer Schulstreik zur weltweiten Klimabewegung". In the book, she contributed with details from within Fridays for Future, to give the reader a perspective from someone within Fridays for Future. [8]

Axelsson has autism. [9]

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