Lights off for the planet_ Earth Hour goes global on 28 March 2009

On Saturday 28 March 2009 between 8.30 and 9.30 pm people, communities and cities around the world are being encouraged to turn off their lights for 60 minutes to mark EARTH HOUR a global WWF campaign aiming to encourage communities to take a stand against global warming.

The Earth Hour was launched by WWF two years ago in Sydney, Australia, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the campaign went global and landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and billboards in Times Square were turned off to mark Earth Hour.

This year’s Earth Hour is being supported by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who urged citizens around the world to join the initiative. In his video address, Mr. Ban Ki-moon underlined the severity of climate change and the need for a global climate deal to be agreed upon by world leaders when they meet at the next Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December this year.

For more information please visit:

http://www.earthhour.org/