Earth Hour has kicked off in China with a major show of support from Chengdu, the first city in the country to give governmental support to the ‘lights out’ campaign.
Chengdu municipal government is committed to a green renaissance, bulding a 'garden city' through sustainable economic development, leading by example in the world's fastest growing economy.
“We are extremely proud that Chengdu can be a part of Earth Hour and join so many cities around the world to support climate action on March 27th. Chengdu’s official announcement is a demonstration of the city’s vision to develop a low-carbon economy and build a world-class garden city of tomorrow to create harmony between man and nature. This is highly in line with Earth Hour’s overall goal,” said Mr. Ye Lang of the Chengdu municipal government.
“Chengdu will lead its 13 million citizens to take part in Earth Hour, and we sincerely hope this global climate initiative will lead people around the world to adopt a low-carbon lifestyle!” he said.
Along with calling on individuals, businesses, communities and governments to turn off their lights for one hour, WWF will launch a mainland China Carbon Calculator and hold a Low Carbon Lifestyle Week from Monday to Friday in the lead up week to Earth Hour. One simple energy-saving action will be promoted each day related to the home, office, transportation, shopping and energy use.
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As hard as it is to believe, it has already been 7 weeks since the historic meeting of 192 nations at the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, where for the first time it was unanimously agreed amongst our world leaders that climate change is the greatest threat to the planet today and is going to require global action.
Coincidentally, we are now only 7 weeks away from the greatest opportunity every individual, business, community and government on the planet has to rally behind action on climate change and show leadership in the low-carbon lifestyle and industrial revolution.
Earth Hour 2010: 8.30pm, Saturday 27th March. Mark it on your calendar.
As world leaders now unravel the subtext of Copenhagen and deliberate over the nuts and bolts that will set the global course of action, there has never been a more important time for the people of the world to take the matter of climate change into their own hands and show our world leaders that a solution is possible if we resolve to work on it together.
Switch off your lights for Earth Hour and show the world what can be done.
It’s time to show some leadership to our leaders. It’s time to show what we’re all doing right now to tackle global warming. It’s time to show each other that while this issue may be bigger than each of us it’s not bigger than all of us.
Last year Earth Hour created history when hundreds of millions of people around the world took part in what was the greatest voluntary action the world has ever witnessed. The latest Earth Hour video is a powerful reminder of that night. Check it out. It’ll give you goose bumps.
The global voice captured in that moment was delivered to the inner sanctum of the climate summit in Copenhagen inside The People’s Orb, which took centre stage alongside UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, in front of 110 heads of state.
Whatever happened to The People’s Orb?
It currently resides inside the UN Headquarters in New York as a constant reminder of the global mandate for action on climate change created in that historic moment during Earth Hour 2009.
With a more far-reaching support network and heightened global awareness of the climate issue, Earth Hour 2010 is going to be even bigger still.
So the stage is set for what promises to be the greatest show on Earth for action on climate change.
Show your friends, family and colleagues you’re part of the climate solution. Show the world you’re leading the low-carbon revolution. Show the Earth Hour video to as many people as you can. Show your support for Earth Hour and sign up at earthhour.org.
And remember, Earth Hour is a street party, not a street protest, so have fun with it!
Tell us what you did for Earth Hour last year. What are you doing for Earth Hour 2010?
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