while it's being billed as the alternative nobel prize this year the right livelihood awards which janda and i balanced and spanned the globe to want to a european teenage environmentalist a chinese lawyer an african protest leader and an indigenous brazilian fighting to save the amazon rainforest. it may look like many other ceremonies but the right livelihood awards in stockholm sets out to shine a light on and noble causes. but 2 of this year's winners were unable to accept their awards in person we have later tuned burge this swedish teen who has sparked a global environmental movement fridays for future sent in an acceptance video she recorded in lisbon on the way to the climate conference she's attending in madrid and i so wish you could take on a few weeks if you like. and. it means a lot. and just continue. to fight continue this and that stuff so thank you so much for this on no reason was given for the absence of 58 year old chinese lawyer jan may some past winners have been unable to come to sweden to receive their awards due to travel bans the jury said jan may have done pion