Street marches have been held in more than 2,000 locations around the world as protestors call for action on climate change.
The People’s Climate March is campaigning for curbs on carbon emissions, ahead of the UN climate summit in New York next week.
Radio New Zealand is reporting that huge demonstrations have been taking place in Australia and Europe. In Manhattan, tens of thousands of people, including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, primatologist Jane Goodall and French Ecology Minister Segolene Royal, are at a march.
“This is the planet where our subsequent generations will live,” Mr Ban told reporters. “There is no ‘Plan B’, because we do not have ‘Planet B’.”
Yesterday about 300 protestors marched along Queen Street in Auckland to urge action on climate change, Radio New Zealand reported.
Organisers of the Manhattan event said they had attracted 550 busloads of marchers, billing it as the biggest protest on the issue for five years, and that it aimed to transform climate change “from an environmental concern to an ‘everybody issue’.”
Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio also took part, having been appointed as a UN representative on climate change last week.
Leonardo DiCaprio, UN representative on climate change: The answer is rising sea levels Photo: Gif: Giphy.com
