Lights will go off in about 7,000 cities around the world, including in Bangladesh, this evening to observe the annual Earth Hour event.
The event will be observed in more than 150 countries from 8:30pm to 9:30pm local time for each country on Saturday, organisers World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said.
The event will see landmarks, including the Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower, the Kremlin, switch off their lights for an hour at 8:30pm local time.
People around the globe will turn off all non-essential lights to raise awareness on environmental challenges and garner support for a greener world.
“Earth Hour aims to encourage an interconnected global community to share the opportunities and challenges of creating a sustainable world,” WWF says.
“It is so much more than just switching off lights. The vision is always to do more, so make the light switch the start of your journey,” they said.
“It is about people from all walks of life coming together throughout the year to show what they can do to protect the planet,” co-founder of the movement Andy Ridley said.
The first Earth Hour event was on March 31, 2007 in Sydney where more than 2.2m people and 2,000 businesses supported climate change action.
