Cities Go Dark for Earth Hour
- Cities around the world marked Earth Hour on 30th March by turning off lights in a call for global action on climate change.
Earth Hour
- Earth Hour is an annual tradition in which people switch off their lights to spread awareness about sustainability and climate change.
- Started by the World Wildlife Fund, it takes place this year on March 30, from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time. (And it’s not to be confused with Earth Day, which is April 22.)
- Earth Hour was famously started as a lights out event in Sydney, Australia in 2007.
Aim of Earth Hour
- For the ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Related Content
- 1 UN Biodiversity Summit (CBD COP16)
- 2 DoT and CDRI Launch Telecom Resilience Framework
- 3 India Ranks Sixth Among Countries Most Affected by Extreme Weather
- 4 India Adds Four New Ramsar Sites
- 5 NTCA Warns Against Morand-Ganjal Irrigation Project
- 6 India’s First Gangetic Dolphin Survey Estimates 6,327 Dolphins
- 7 Global Water Gaps Worsen with Rising Temperatures
- 8 Marine Heatwaves in Western Australia Intensify Due to Climate Change
- 9 Global Sea Ice Cover Reaches Record Low
- 10 Melting Glaciers Have Raised Global Sea Levels by 2 cm
- 1 IUCN lists Hump-backed Mahseer as Critically Endangered
- 2 National Plan for Polluted Rivers
- 3 IMD Confirms Weak El Nino Conditions
- 4 National Seminar on Greenery and Landscaping
- 5 Global Recognition for Namami Gange
- 6 Global Coalition for Clean Cooling Launched
- 7 Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific (RCAP) Congress 2019
- 8 EPCA’s Parking Management Plan for Delhi
- 9 Face of Disasters 2019 Report
