WWF'S Earth Hour Sparks Worldwide Unity On Climate Change

74 cities in 62 countries accomplish to Earth Hour 2009; Earth Hour aims to ability one billion humans in 1,000 cities about the world; Economic abatement an befalling to beacon abridgement into safer acceptable future

Sydney, Australia -- 74 cities in 62 countries are announcement their charge to about-face off for WWF's Earth Hour in 2009. The campaign, which hopes to ability out to added than one billion humans in 1,000 cities about the world, asks individuals, the common blog community, online amusing communities to advance the chat so that individuals, businesses and governments will about-face off lights for just one hour on Saturday March 28 at 8:30pm to actualize a belvedere of abutment for action on altitude change.

Earth Hour
Earth Hour aims to authenticate aberrant adherence and accommodate a beheld authorization for action on altitude change that will culminate in December 2009 in Copenhagen if apple leaders accumulate to bang new agreements on acclamation altitude change.

When leaders accumulate in Copenhagen in December 2009 to accommodate a new accord on altitude they have to feel that the eyes of the apple are aloft them. Earth Hour provides an befalling for the accessible to forward a able arresting that they are watching and apprehend action Recent contest accept apparent that the apple can affiliate in a time of crisis. The all-around bread-and-butter crisis is an archetype where, if it matters, absolute multi-lateral action by able nations has been apparent to be achievable. The C40 Climate Leadership Group is about cities alive calm to drive down greenhouse gas emissions and that is why as Chair of the C40 I abutment Earth Hour. It's acute that cities and the accessible appear calm to crop action adjoin altitude change and Earth Hour provides a abundant belvedere to do that. 2009 is the year we adjudge the approaching of the earth. It is the year if the apple meets to accede on a plan to abate carbon emissions above the globe. This is the time to advance in new means of accomplishing business in a new low carbon economy. We have to all footfall over the band calm if we are to succeed. The lights out initiative, which Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007 as a accessible acquaintance adopting attack on altitude change, has developed decidedly over the accomplished two years and now has 74 cities accessible to flick the about-face in 2009. Cities already committed cover Moscow, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, London, Hong Kong, Sydney, Rome, Manila, Oslo, Cape Town, Warsaw, Lisbon, Singapore, Istanbul, Mexico City, Toronto, Dubai and Copenhagen.

At 8:30 message on Saturday, March 28, the apple will attestant some of the a lot of recognisable landmarks on the planet dim the lights in abutment of absolute action on altitude change. Icons switching off cover the world's tallest architecture in Dubai - the Burj Dubai, the tallest free-standing anatomy in the Americas - the CN Tower in Toronto, Moscow's Federation Tower and in Rome - Quirinale - the official abode of the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano.

Auckland's Sky Tower - the tallest belfry in the Southern Hemisphere will go dark, abutting by Australia's iconic sails of the Sydney Opera House and above in Cape Town, South Africa, the iconic Table Mountain will mark Earth Hour by axis off its flood lights in abutment of Earth Hour's action on altitude change.

With individuals and online communities overextension the word, abounding millions of humans will accompany the beef and about-face off their lights in their homes. Last year the all-around blogging association generated an estimated 65,700 posts acknowledging Earth Hour. This year, with the advance of amusing media we achievement with the abutment of the all-around blog association and online communities to beat that amount 4-fold as Earth Hour calls for action and articulate abutment to crop beheld action on altitude change.

Director General of WWF International, Jim Leape, said, "When leaders accumulate in Copenhagen in December 2009 to accommodate a new accord on altitude they have to feel that the eyes of the apple are aloft them."

"Earth Hour provides an befalling for the accessible to forward a able arresting that they are watching and apprehend action," said Mr Leape.

Executive Director of Earth Hour Global, Mr Andy Ridley, said, "Recent contest accept apparent that the apple can affiliate in a time of crisis. The all-around bread-and-butter crisis is an archetype where, if it matters, absolute multi-lateral action by able nations has been apparent to be achievable."

Mr David Miller, Mayor of Toronto and armchair of the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group said, "The C40 Climate Leadership Group is about cities alive calm to drive down greenhouse gas emissions and that is why as Chair of the C40 I abutment Earth Hour. It's acute that cities and the accessible appear calm to crop action adjoin altitude change and Earth Hour provides a abundant belvedere to do that."

Mr Ridley aswell said 2009 was the planet's 'destiny year', with analytical decisions bare to be fabricated at the Copenhagen affair on abbreviation greenhouse gas emissions.

"2009 is the year we adjudge the approaching of the earth. It is the year if the apple meets to accede on a plan to abate carbon emissions above the globe. This is the time to advance in new means of accomplishing business in a new low carbon economy. We have to all footfall over the band calm if we are to succeed."

The all-encompassing WWF attention arrangement aswell has added than 30 teams alive in countries such as Brazil, Greece, India, Peru, Spain, Switzerland and France, accessible to abutment a bounded Earth Hour cycle out.

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Hong Kong will advertise data of its Earth Hour accord at a columnist appointment on December 14 and Beijing will authority an Earth Hour barrage celebration on December 15. For added advice amuse acquaintance Chris Chaplin (China, Chinese, English languages) email: cchaplin at wwfchina dot org or King-yin Lee (Hong Kong, Chinese, English languages) email: kylee at wwf dot org.hk B-roll and Earth Hour still images can be begin at www.earthhour.org/mediacentre. If you accept a specific appeal for your blog, acquaintance Sarah Barry.Current Earth Hour Global Social Media Profiles:
MySpace: myspace.com/earthhour
YouTube: youtube.com/earthhour2009
Twitter: twitter.com/earthhour
Facebook Fans: facebook.com/pages/Earth-Hour/6867084435?ref=mf
Facebook Group: facebook.com/group.php?gid=2235111402&ref=mf
Flickr Photostream: flickr.com/photos/earthhour_global
Bebo: bebo.com/earthhour_global

About Earth Hour:
Earth Hour is a all-around WWF altitude change initiative. Individuals, businesses, governments and communities are arrive to about-face out their lights for one hour on Saturday March 28, 2009 at 8:30 PM to appearance their abutment for action on altitude change. The accident began in Sydney in 2007, if 2 actor humans switched off their lights. In 2008, added than 50 actor humans about the apple participated. In 2009, Earth Hour aims to ability out to 1 billion humans in 1,000 cities. http://www.earthhour.org

About WWF:
WWF is one of the world's better and a lot of admired absolute attention organizations, with about 5 actor supporters and a all-around arrangement breath in added than 100 countries. WWF's mission is to stop the abasement of the earth's accustomed ambiance and to body a approaching in which bodies abide in accord with nature, by attention the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable accustomed assets is sustainable, and announcement the abridgement of abuse and careless consumption. http://www.wwf.org