Australians turned up in large numbers all across the country to join the rallies urging more action on climate change. The marches have been scheduled a day before the United Nations summit on climate change to be held in Paris.

Sydney, Canberra, Perth and Hobart along with other rural and regional towns in Australia will be joining 600 cities across 120 countries in the march. Rallies in Brisbane, Melbourne and Darwin have already started. These are the first few of the several rallies to be held across Australia over the weekend.

A large crowd has gathered in the domain and will be marching towards the Opera House. Irrespective of their profession, people have come out to join the rally urging the governments to keep the temperatures from rising beyond 2 degrees Celsius, which according to the scientists is the limit and if it goes beyond the limit it could be catastrophic. Following the industrial revolutions, the temperatures have risen by 1 degree Celsius.

"Protect our common home," read a placard in Melbourne. According to rally organisers in Melbourne, around 60,000 people turned up for the rally whereas the estimate given by the Victoria Police is about 40,000.

In Brisbane, 5,000 people are reported to have joined the rallies but according to the organisers, 10,000 people have turned up despite the hot and humid weather. Members of the Pacific Climate group addressed the rally and noted that unless there is an international effort to cut the greenhouse gas emission, a large number of Pacific islands will have to ace dangerous consequences due to rise in the sea level.

In Canberra, 5,000 people marched down from the Parliament House to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in front of the Old Parliament House.

"Often at these climate marches it can feel like we're protesting something that's so hard to change but the reality is that there is so much climate action already happening right across the world and here in Canberra's a great example of that," ABC quoted ACT Conservation Council's Phoebe Howe as saying.

Around 150 leaders, including the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be attending the Paris conference which will be addressing the issue of climate change on a global basis.

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