The People's Climate March in London – in pictures
Emma Thompson, Vivienne Westwood and Peter Gabriel joined campaigners and UK flood victims at one of 2,000 events taking place in 150 countries before next week’s UN summit in New York. An estimated 40,000 people were there.
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The People’s Climate March reclaims the road near Temple.
Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features
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The march in London was one of many similar demonstrations around the world. But how many of the demonstrators remembered to bring their pink boo boo?
Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features
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Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer, left, Peter Gabriel, musician, and Emma Thompson, actor, right, at the start of the London People’s Climate March, celebrity cell.
Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters
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Emma Thompson, left, speaks at the end of the People’s Climate March, in Parliament Square.
Photograph: Laura Lean/PA
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Vivienne Westwood talks to Kye Gbangbola and wife Nicole, the parents of Zane Gbangbola, seven, who died during recent floods in Surrey.
Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features
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The London march was one of many worldwide. Here the giraffes are demonstrating unity.
Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters
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A Greenpeace supporter at the People’s Climate March
Photograph: John Cobb/Greenpeace
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It stayed dry in London, unlike the sister demo in Rio de Janeiro.
Photograph: Laurence Topham/The Guardian
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The People’s Climate March arrives at the Houses of Parliament, which is not in session.
Photograph: Laura Lean/PA
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Placard referencing Game of Thrones. See what they did there?
Photograph: Theodore Liasi/Corbis
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An estimated 40,000 people marched from Embankment via Whitehall to the Houses of Parliament.
Photograph: Fiona Hanson/AP Images for Avaaz
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The People’s Climate March was a worldwide mobilisation calling on world leaders to commit to urgent action on climate change and 100% clean energy.
Photograph: Fiona Hanson/AP Images for AVAAZ
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And still they come.
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