Leonardo DiCaprio has said climate change "is fact" as he addressed the UN Climate Summit in New York.
Over 2,000 protests have taken place around the world, including in London.
"As an actor I pretend for a living - I play fictitious characters with fictitious problems. I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way, as if it were a fiction," DiCaprio told the audience.
Leonardo DiCaprio has said climate change "is fact" as he addressed the UN Climate Summit in New York.
The newly-appointed UN Messenger of Peace said he was a "concerned citizen" and "one of the 400,000 people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday."
"As an actor I pretend for a living - I play fictitious characters with fictitious problems. I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way, as if it were a fiction," DiCaprio told the audience.
"But I think we all know better than that now ... none of this is rhetoric and none of this is hysteria, it is fact".
Environmental protesters reportedly left a trail of rubbish through the streets of New York after marching for climate change.
The 100 leaders did not agree on concrete proposals, but the meeting has raised hopes for concrete international agreement next December.
Over 2,000 People's Climate March protests have taken place in 166 countries ahead of a major UN conference on climate change.