Photos: Shadia Fayne Wood

As the world mobilised on climate action on Saturday and Sunday with 2,700 climate rallies having been planned across the world, New York City stole the show with orchestrating the biggest march on climate change the world has ever seen. Organisers said that conservative estimates of the turnout are around the 300,000 mark, but the number could be as high as 400,000.

Founder of climate change group Bill McKibben on the significance of the march and the large turnout:

Remind any politician you see: this was the largest political gathering about anything in the US in a very very long time. About anything!
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) September 21, 2014

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To everyone climbing back aboard buses for the long tired ride home: no kidding, you guys made history by being here. Such such gratitude
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) September 21, 2014

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