Drone footage of Friday's climate action march in Auckland shows tens of thousands of people calling for more to be done against climate change.

The Auckland protest was accompanied by demonstrations in towns and cities all over the country and came after massive protests around the world a week ago.

Many of the participants were students, inspired by Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Drone footage supplied to Newshub showed a birds-eye view of the streams of people holding signs donning bright colours walking down Queen Street.