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Record Earth Hour participation from Asia’s governments
Many governments in Asia, along with businesses and households, went dark at 8:30 local time last Saturday (29 March) to support Earth Hour, an annual global event organised by World Wide Fund for Nature (WFF).
WWF, a large NGO focusing on issues on conservation, research and restoration of the environment, launched the first Earth Hour in Sydney in 2007. The organisers ask organisations and households to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on global warming.
In Hong Kong, 11 government agencies, including the Environment Bureau, Home Affairs Bureau and Hong Kong Observatory, participated in this year’s event. The legislative council also backed the movement.
The government also turned off Symphony of Lights, the world’s largest permanent light show to mark Earth Hour. Many businesses extinguished their famous neon signs along the Victoria Harbour skyline.
Up north, Beijing turned off lights in the National Stadium (‘Bird Nest’) and the National Centre for the Performing Arts and over 20 other iconic sites. As a new participating country, nineteen cities in Mainland China switched off its non-essential lights.
Many cities across Malaysia, the Philippines, India and Singapore also went dark for an hour. Globally, over 4000 cities and towns across 88 countries supported this year’s Earth Hour – eight times more than last year. United Nations also backed the initiative by switching off the non-essential lights at its headquarters in New York.
According to WWF, Earth Hour has been transformed into the ‘world’s first global election’, between Earth and global warming. The result of the ‘vote’ will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.
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