In September the marchers took their message to the highest level when they met UK prime minister, Gordon Brown.
Marchers Mohammed and Rosalia meet Gordon Brown in Bournemouth
Marchers Mohammed Adow from Kenya and Rosalia Soley from El Salvador told him about the real impacts climate change is having in poor countries.
Brown said he was ‘delighted’ that so many people were campaigning on climate change. He added that, just as the UK had taken a lead before on international issues such as debt cancellation, so it could lead on climate change.
The meeting came at Labour's party conference in Bournemouth, shortly after the PM had acknowledged that the government would need to strengthen its targets for cutting carbon emissions - read more.
Autumn of action
The end of the Cut the Carbon march is the beginning of an autumn of campaigning by Christian Aid to press for real action on climate change.
When MPs return to Parliament in October they will begin debating the Climate Change Bill.
We need your support to lobby our representatives to do more:
The world’s poor need an 80% reduction in UK carbon emissions by 2050 not 60% as proposed by the government.
Email your MP now, and demand a tougher Climate Change Bill.