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The activists demonstrated across the UK to highlight a UN convention on climate change being held in Bali, Indonesia.

In London organisers said more than 10,000 people marched through the capital then held a rally outside the US Embassy.

A letter addressed to Prime Minister Gordon Brown highlighting their concerns was handed into 10 Downing Street and called for a series of measures to tackle the issue.

The document told Mr Brown: "We feel that dealing with this threat should be the number one priority of the British Government, a priority for all areas of policy and across all departments of government."

It went on to call on the British Government to do its upmost at the UN conference "to secure an equitable emissions treaty that is effective in preventing the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate and which minimises dangerous climate change."

The letter also urged Mr Brown's Government to worker harder on the domestic front and introduce as soon as possible a climate bill to reduce UK emissions by at least 80% by 2050 and annually review targets so that there was less likelihood of a "slippage" in reaching targets.

The letter was handed in by a delegation of campaigners who included a number of children including sons and daughters of activist Joanna Hills from Redhill, Surrey - Dylan, 11, Elliot, 8, and four-year-old Imogen.

Jonathan Essex, a steering committee member of the Campaign Against Climate Change, which organised the march, said: "For the sake of our children and the next generation we need to live in such a way that those of the next generation can also live.

"If the next generation say to us 'daddy, what did you do about climate change' the answer we should give is that we stopped it, any other answer is unacceptable."