Activists are hoping to bring central London to a standstill on Saturday with what is being billed as Britain’s biggest climate-change march.

The campaigners will call on ministers to impose tough rules on carbon emissions by law.

The march will begin at Millbank and end at the American Embassy, where a series of talks will be given by leading green politicians, including Chris Huhne and Michael Meacher.

It is timed to coincide with the UN climate change talks taking place in Bali and parallel marches will be staged in 50 other countries.

Organisers say they hope up to 40,000 people could attend the rally.

“Last year we attracted 35,000 people and we hope this will be bigger,” said Phil Thornhill of the Campaign Against Climate Change, which is organising the event.
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Several thousand climate campaigners marched through London and Stockholm on Saturday calling on governments around the world to take urgent action to tackle global warming.

Carrying banners with slogans like “cut carbon not forests” and “actions speak louder than words” protesters in London marched in torrential rain and biting cold past parliament and through Trafalgar Square to rally in front of the U.S. embassy.

Some posters carried a picture of U.S. President George W. Bush and the words “Wanted for crimes against the planet”. The United States is the world’s biggest emitter of carbon gases.

British police said 2,000 people took part in the march. Organisers said they estimated the number at 7,000.

In Sweden, police said about 1,000 protesters marched through Stockholm in the rain carrying banners reading “make love, not CO2”, “kids for the climate” and “flying kills” in Swedish and English.

“I’ve never seen so many people come to a demonstration in Stockholm,” said Susanna Ahlfors, 34, marching with her two children.
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