From Sydney to Dubai before Rio or Mexico City, An Hour for the Earth, now a ritual extinction operation, will remind us on Saturday the impact of our energy expenditure on the climate and the role of nature in our survival, says the WWF .
Shanghai Tower, Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong, Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai, Red Square, Acropolis, Eiffel Tower, Egyptian Pyramids, St. Peter's Basilica, Big Ben, Christ of Rio, UN Headquarters in New York ... d Countless sites, monuments and buildings are going after each other to extinguish their fires between 20:30 and 21:30 local, over time zones.
Organized by the WWF, this citizen mobilization, which also proposes to everyone to do the same thing, celebrates its 13th edition.
In 2007, Sydney launched this unprecedented operation, for an hour, intended to challenge the public authorities. Since the movement has taken worldwide, while global warming is increasing under the effect of greenhouse gases at levels of emissions and record concentration.
Last year, nearly 7,000 cities in 187 countries turned off their iconic buildings, from Singapore to Honolulu, via Sydney, Moscow, or Washington, says the WWF.
"This year, millions of people around the world will come together again to express their desire for a healthy and sustainable future," says WWF. While nature is threatened "at unprecedented rates", and faces "the constant challenge of climate change," Earth Hour 2019 wants to remember its importance and the services it renders to people (water, food , pharmacopoeia, etc.).
Several major events are coming up in 2020, including the UN Conference on Biodiversity in China and the Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in France.
"We must seize these opportunities to obtain an international commitment to stop and reverse this loss of nature: we need a new agreement for nature and man, as global and ambitious as the agreement against global warming" adopted end of 2015 in Paris, call the WWF.
According to the latest report "Living Planet", published by the NGO in 2018, from 1970 to 2014, vertebrate populations - fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles - have fallen by 60% globally. An 89% decline in the tropics, South and Central America.
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