Gaute Eiterjord

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GAUTE EITERJORD is a student, activist and former leader of Young Friends of the Earth Norway. He was one of the organizers/prime movers behind the school strike and the climate lawsuit against the Norwegian government and was chair of Young Friends of the Earth Norway when it became the joint recipient with Greta Thunberg of Fritt Ord’s Prize in 2019 for their work on making the environmental campaign action-oriented.

Gaute was elected at the National Assembly 2018 in Fredrikstad. Before this, he was county leader in Rogaland NU. He has been a central board member since 2014 and deputy chairman from 2015.

As an environmentalist, Gaute has been involved in a number of issues, such as transport and light rail in Stavanger.[4] In February 2016, he chained himself to construction machinery to stop test drilling in the controversial Engebø project. Eiterjord has also been the project manager for "Let us in - youth into agriculture", which is a collaboration between the Norwegian Farmers' and Smallholders' Association, the Norwegian Rural Youth Association and Nature and Youth.

Gaute is a PhD Candidate at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), in the Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management (INA). In 2020, he published the book Klimaopprøret, which he himself refers to as "a kind of guide to the climate debate".

Sources: https://www.litfestbergen.no/en/litfestbergen-2021/authors/gaute-eiterjord | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gaute-Eiterjord | https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaute_Eiterjord 

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