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Please welcome chris martin. [ cheers and applause ] >> i don't normally present awards but this guy means a lot to me and this award means a lot to me. this is an artist for over five decades remained so dedicated to his music, remaining unbelievably sexy and to saving the rain forest. and when i was a young man just dreaming about doing the job i get to do, i saw sting looking basically, who's this guy who's a bit nuts and talking about the rain forest? i didn't know what it was and i wouldn't have if not for sting, when they started the rain forest fund. what is climate change and he was wa...

For over 20 years, trudy and i, you know, trying to get the message out, and as you can see, this is like a green tea party out there, people who care, people who care about clean water and fresh air for the children to breathe, food that doesn't kill you, a better planet, a safer planet and it is a tea party movement. >> yeah. trudy, what do you think about what he said? >> a real one. >> well, of course i agree with him, not because i'm the little wife, but because we've been on this mission together, we went to the rain forest in the '80s, we've been a foundation for 21 years now, and reall...

Fund really fights on their behalf. >> are what do you think of what he said, it's a green tea party, what do you make of that? what are you saying by that, sting, and then you can respond, trudy. >> well, you can see the enthusiasm out there, and people are here to really tell big government that we want big government to make big decisions about the most important problems we face, and also to pressure corporations to behave properly as consumer, but we're asking for big government, basically. >> you want big government? >> of course we do. this is a huge problem and only government is going...

Weir from the grateful dead, john legend, the roots and josh stone. organizers say they hope the big names and the big crowds will tell lawmakers to act, because the effort to end global warms has been waiting long enough. >> we've been really dragging our feet, and so this is going to send i hope a little message to the u.s. government and to congress in general that they need to pass climate legislation, good climate legislation and they need to do it now. ♪ >> among the activists, musicians at today's rally, sting seen here last year at you united nations concert now lending his voice to ...