Earth Hour: Lights off, climate action on

The largest global environment movement is happening on Saturday, when the UN invites people around the world to shut the lights to remember the planetary crisis during Earth Hour as young partners find new ways to drive climate action. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2024/03/1147911
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Earth Hour: Lights off, climate action on

Earth Hour: UN joins iconic landmarks ‘going dark’ globally with a call to protect environment

24 Mar 2018

The United Nations this evening turned off the lights at its iconic Headquarters in New York as well as at other facilities around the world in observance of “Earth Hour” – a global event highlighting the need for climate action and sustainable energy consumption.

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Earth Hour: ‘Make peace with nature’ – UN chief

27 Mar 2021

The world began to ripple to darkness on Saturday as countries globally dimmed their lights at 8:30 pm local time for Earth Hour – an event that, according to the UN, encourages individuals, communities, and businesses to turn off non-essential electric lights, for one hour.

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World unites at UN Environment Assembly to combat ‘triple planetary crisis’

26 Feb 2024

The latest meeting of the “world’s parliament on the environment” opened in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday with a clear call for stronger global action to address the “triple planetary crisis” of  climate change, nature loss and pollution.