Street protests demanding urgent action on climate change have attracted hundreds of thousands of marchers in more than 2,000 locations worldwide.
The People's Climate March is campaigning for curbs on carbon emissions, ahead of the UN climate summit in New York next week.
In Manhattan, organisers said some 310,000 people joined a march that was also attended by UN chief Ban Ki-moon.
Earlier, huge demonstrations took place in Australia and Europe.
"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'."
The UN Secretary General was accompanied by primatologist Jane Goodall and the French Ecology Minister, Segolene Royal.
New York hosted the largest of Sunday's protests, drawing more than half of the 600,000 marchers estimated by organisers to have taken part in rallies around the world.
Manhattan echoed to the sound of chants, horns and drums as the colourful protest progressed through the streets.
Organisers of the Manhattan event said it surpassed the largest previous protest on climate change.
They said the massive mobilisation was aimed at transforming climate change "from an environmental concern to an everybody issue".
Business leaders, environmentalists and celebrities joined the demonstration.
Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio also took part, having been appointed as a UN representative on climate change last week.
The New York rally was part of a global protest that included events in 156 countries - Afghanistan, the UK, Italy and Brazil among them.
- In London, the march attracted an estimated 40,000 people, including actress Emma Thompson who likened the threat from climate change to a Martian invasion
- Some 30,000 people marched in Melbourne, Australia. Demonstrators urged Prime Minister Tony Abbott to take action, citing fears that climate change could lead to more bushfires and droughts
- Organisers said more than 25,000 marched in Paris
- About 15,000 people marched in Berlin. Organisers urged world leaders to recognise climate change as a pressing problem
- In Rio de Janeiro, some 5,000 marchers turned out. Environmental slogans and a green heart were projected onto the famed statue of Christ the Redeemer, overlooking the city
- Smaller protests - attracting numbers in the hundreds or low thousands - were also seen in cities such as Bogota, Barcelona, Jakarta and Delhi
On Tuesday, the UN will host a climate summit at its headquarters in New York with 125 heads of state and government - the first such gathering since the unsuccessful climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009.
Mr Ban hopes leaders can make progress on a universal agreement to be signed by all nations at the end of 2015.
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