Earth Hour

The lights on the Acropolis, Presidential Mansion, Parliament and other public buildings were switched off on Saturday evening to mark Earth Hour.

Organised by WWF, this year's event was dedicated to the forest, after the hottest year on record worldwide and the destruction of 120,000 hectares of woodland in Greece in last summer's fires.

In a global display of commitment to our planet, millions of households worldwide will switch off their lights for an hour at exactly 8:30 pm on Saturday. This symbolic gesture aims to galvanize efforts towards building a sustainable future for Earth.

Earth Hour is marked worldwide on March 28 for the 13th consecutive year.

Due to the Covid-19 state of emergency, the largest global nature conservation initiative will take place exclusively online for the first time in its history.

The lights will be switched off on the capital's Lycabettus Hill and at Athens City Hall on Saturday between 8.30 and 9.30 p.m. as the Greek capital celebrates Earth Hour, along with another 79 countries and 7,000 cities.
Earth Hour was established in 2007 to raise awareness about the climate and the environment.

Several public institutions in the Capital City Bucharest, as well as organizations are marking on Saturday the "Earth Hour."

* The Presidential Administration joins the "Earth Hour" campaign for the fourth consecutive year.

In this respect, on Saturday, between 20.30 and 21.30 EET, the lights at the Cotroceni Palace will be switched off, informs the Presidency.

On 25th March, the Earth Hour campaign will be marked for the 10th time by turning off electricity at 20:30 Bulgarian time, and this year a night climb of Cherni Vrah is also organised, as well as other initiatives at Bulgarian municipalities.

Iconic landmarks across Turkey, including the ancient city of Ephesus, Selimiye Mosque in the northwestern province of Edirne and Cappadocia's famous "Fairy Chimneys," will switch off their lights for the first time to support "Earth Hour."

Istanbul?s symbolic landmarks were darkened for an hour on March 28 during the World Wide Fund for Nature?s (WWF) annual ?Earth Hour? event to raise awareness of environmental issues.

The Empire State Building dimmed its lights and the Eiffel Tower went dark March 28 as iconic landmarks across the world observed Earth Hour, the global climate change awareness campaign.
 
The usually glittering nighttime majesty of the Empire State Building was set to "faint sparkle" in New York, while theaters on Broadway also toned down the neon. 
 

Bulgarians and people around the world are preparing to observe the global initiative Earth Hour by switching off their lights for one hour on Saturday.

The Earth Hour is a worldwide movement for protection of the environment and raising awareness for the dangers of climate change, organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).