Organisers of an international climate rally say the Melbourne leg of the global demonstration has seen 30,000 protesters converge on Melbourne's Treasury Gardens on Sunday afternoon. Australia's People's Climate March is one of around 2500 rallies taking place around the globe ahead of a United Nations summit on climate change in New York next week. World leaders will meet on Tuesday where Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop will represent Australia. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said it is important he stay in Canberra but will head to the US the next day for a UN Security Council meeting on terrorism. "This is a clear testament that Australians want climate action regardless of what Tony Abbott and his government are doing right now," GetUp! Campaigns chief of staff Erin McCallum said of the march on Sunday. "The key message today is we're doing what he won't, we're standing up, and we?re taking action as consumers, as citizens, as Australians around the world and all around Australia today.

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