Episode 3
Join Greta in Switzerland and Denmark to investigate potential solutions to limit climate change. She also explores how everyone can play a role, from what we eat to what we wear. Finally, she looks for lessons from the world's response to COVID-19.
Episodes
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Episode 3
S1 E3 - 54m 21s
Join Greta in Switzerland and Denmark to investigate potential solutions to limit climate change. She also explores how everyone can play a role, from what we eat to what we wear. Finally, she looks for lessons from the world's response to COVID-19.
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Episode 2
S1 E2 - 54m
Follow Greta's journey from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs. She also visits the UK, where she meets with one of her inspirations, Sir David Attenborough.
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Episode 1
S1 E1 - 54m 21s
Follow Greta as she sees impacts of climate change at three locations: melting glaciers and dying trees in Canada, and fire devastation in California. When a UN conference moves to Madrid, she sails across the ocean during life-threatening storms.
Extras + Features
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COVID-19's Impact on Climate
S1 E3 - 4m 23s
Greta speaks to Dr. Jenny Stavrakou who has been measuring carbon emissions during the COVID-19 crisis. Greta learns that emissions dropped substantially during the crisis but have risen again.
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Direct Air Capture
S1 E3 - 4m 38s
Greta visits Climeworks in Hinwil, Switzerland and learns how their direct air capture plant works. Carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and stored in rocks underground but Greta learns that these technologies cannot be the only solution to reduce global temperatures.
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Reindeer Face Starvation
S1 E2 - 3m 55s
Greta meets indigenous Sami herders in Jokkmokk, Sweden. Greta learns that the change in climate is threatening their way of life. The Sami herders have been following reindeers for thousands of years but the reindeer are facing starvation due to rising temperatures. Scientists explain the effects that climate change is having on human migration globally.
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Greta and Svante's Atlantic Crossing
S1 E1 - 5m 2s
Greta and Svante sail across the Atlantic Ocean battling turbulent tropical storms to reach the UN climate conference in Madrid. Scientists explain why storms are becoming worse due to global warming and what other effects increased carbon emissions are having on ocean life.
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Athabasca Glacier
S1 E1 - 4m 25s
Greta joins Professor John Pomeroy and his team who have been studying the Athabasca Glacier. Greta learns that rising temperatures as well as soot from forest fires have caused the glacier to melt faster than the models suggest.
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Preview
S1 - 30s
Travel with the world’s best-known climate activist as she takes her fight to a global stage. With unique access, the series follows Greta Thunberg over an extraordinary year as she embarks on a mission to ensure world leaders work to limit global warming.
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Extended Preview
S1 - 2m 50s
The series follows Greta on her year off school to better understand the impact of global warming and discover what could help to reduce emissions.
Schedule
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Friday
Apr 11
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg witnesses impacts of climate change, including melting glaciers and dying trees in Canada and fire devastation in California; a U.N. conference in Madrid. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Friday
Apr 11
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg travels from the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs; a visit with David Attenborough in the U.K. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Friday
Apr 11
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg investigates potential solutions to limit climate change in Switzerland and Denmark; lessons from the world's response to COVID-19. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Saturday
Apr 12
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg witnesses impacts of climate change, including melting glaciers and dying trees in Canada and fire devastation in California; a U.N. conference in Madrid. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Saturday
Apr 12
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg travels from the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs; a visit with David Attenborough in the U.K. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Saturday
Apr 12
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg investigates potential solutions to limit climate change in Switzerland and Denmark; lessons from the world's response to COVID-19. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Saturday
Apr 12
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg witnesses impacts of climate change, including melting glaciers and dying trees in Canada and fire devastation in California; a U.N. conference in Madrid. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Saturday
Apr 12
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg travels from the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs; a visit with David Attenborough in the U.K. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Saturday
Apr 12
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg investigates potential solutions to limit climate change in Switzerland and Denmark; lessons from the world's response to COVID-19. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Saturday
Apr 12
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg witnesses impacts of climate change, including melting glaciers and dying trees in Canada and fire devastation in California; a U.N. conference in Madrid. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Saturday
Apr 12
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg travels from the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs; a visit with David Attenborough in the U.K. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Saturday
Apr 12
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg investigates potential solutions to limit climate change in Switzerland and Denmark; lessons from the world's response to COVID-19. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Tuesday
Apr 15
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg witnesses impacts of climate change, including melting glaciers and dying trees in Canada and fire devastation in California; a U.N. conference in Madrid. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Tuesday
Apr 15
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg witnesses impacts of climate change, including melting glaciers and dying trees in Canada and fire devastation in California; a U.N. conference in Madrid. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Wednesday
Apr 16
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg travels from the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs; a visit with David Attenborough in the U.K. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Wednesday
Apr 16
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg travels from the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs; a visit with David Attenborough in the U.K. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Thursday
Apr 17
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg investigates potential solutions to limit climate change in Switzerland and Denmark; lessons from the world's response to COVID-19. -
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Thursday
Apr 17
1 Hour
Greta Thunberg investigates potential solutions to limit climate change in Switzerland and Denmark; lessons from the world's response to COVID-19.
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