Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has applied to trademark her name.
She said on Instagram that the move would allow legal action against persons or companies trying to use her name or the movement’s which are not in line with its values.
Thunberg said she had also applied to trademark 'Skolstrejk for klimatet', school strike for the climate in Swedish - the wording on the placard she has held since she started her one-person protest outside the Swedish parliament in 2018, for which she missed school, Reuters reported.
"I assure you, I and the other school strikers have absolutely no interests in trademarks. But unfortunately it needs to be done," she said on the social network.
"My name and the #FridaysForFuture movement are constantly being used for commercial purposes without any consent whatsoever. It happens for instance in marketing, selling of products and people collecting money in my and the movement’s name," she wrote on her Instagram account.
