"Earth Hour" is a global energy-saving activity proposed by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to cope with global climate change. It advocates that at 20:30 p.m. local time on the last Saturday of March every year (20: 30 p.m. Earth Hour time on March 26th, 2022), households and business users turn off unnecessary lights and power-consuming products for one hour to show their support for climate change action. The following is what Earth Hour 60+ means for you, for reference only, and I hope it will help you.
What does Earth Hour 60+ mean?
60+ refers to Earth Hour, where everyone should turn off unnecessary electrical appliances for 60 minutes to cultivate people's environmental protection concept.
About Earth Hour.
"Earth Hour", also known as "Turn off the lights for one hour", is an initiative launched by the World Wide Fund for Nature in 2007. It calls on individuals, communities, enterprises and governments to turn off their lights for one hour from 20: 30 to 2 1: 30 on the last Saturday of March every year, so as to stimulate people's sense of responsibility for protecting the earth, reflect on environmental issues such as climate change and show their concern for the world.
This is a global event. The "Earth Hour" event was first held in Sydney, Australia on March 3, 2007, and attracted more than 2.2 million families and businesses in Sydney at once. Subsequently, the activity quickly swept the world at an alarming rate. At 20:00 on March 29th, 2008, the activities in Earth Hour were promoted to the whole world, and more than 40 cities and nearly 380 towns around the world carried out the activities by relay. Millions of people gathered to take action to deal with climate change. Since then, Earth Hour has been recognized as one of the biggest global actions to deal with climate change, and has become a global sustainable development activity.
Activity purpose
"Earth Hour" aims to let people around the world know about the threat posed by climate change, and make them realize how a small action by individuals and enterprises will have a profound impact on their living environment-a small change may have a huge impact.
This year, Earth Hour continues to start from the blue sky expected by the public, calling on the public to start with food, clothing, housing and entertainment, practice sustainable living and consumption patterns in daily life, and encourage everyone to implement their own solutions to climate change, so that the smog can stop and the blue sky can reappear through small changes by everyone.
Activity significance
People are taking more environmental protection actions. More and more people take part in "Car Free Day" activities, and more and more people realize the significance of "Plastic Restriction Order". The "Earth Hour" activity, which was only the "Sydney Incident" many years ago, has now become a global environmental protection activity covering thousands of cities and hundreds of millions of people ... People living in different corners of the globe are responding to each other with practical actions, inspiring the courage of human beings to cope with environmental challenges.
Turning off the lights for an hour may be just a drop in the bucket for saving energy and reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases and other polluting gases caused by power generation. However, when the environmental awareness inspired by this is deeply rooted in people's hearts and transformed into ideas, when ideas are transformed into actions, and when actions become habits, the contribution to global environmental protection will never be limited to numbers.
What is the meaning of Earth Hour?
The effect of energy saving and emission reduction is remarkable.
In 2008, the energy consumption of Earth Hour in Sydney decreased by 8.4%, which was equivalent to extinguishing 6,543.8+600,000 light bulbs. According to the data released by Christchurch, the only city in New Zealand that officially participated in the lights-out activities, the energy consumption decreased by nearly 13% after one hour of lights-out.
There is no doubt that the publicity effect of the lights-out show is far greater than the actual emission reduction effect. Under the relay of the global "Lights Out Show", more people began to realize the importance of energy conservation and emission reduction, and participated in this activity in their own way.
Stephanie Veric, consultant of a steel company in Peoria, Illinois, USA, held a party with the theme of "B YOC" for her friends, that is, "Bring your candles". After this experience, Stephanie Warwick, 42, decided to hold a "Earth Hour" at home once a month, and even planned to hold a "green funeral" for herself.
In 2008, with the arrival of "Earth Hour", citizens of many famous cities in the world began to enjoy candlelight dinners from Fiji, New Zealand to Australia, and then to Asia, Europe and America. Among them, the landmark cathedral in Christchurch, the third largest city in New Zealand, took the lead in turning off the lights under the auspices of the mayor. Hundreds of local people watched a documentary about environmental protection in Cathedral Square, and then flocked to local restaurants and bars together. All the candles were lit here and a candlelight dinner was held. Thousands of families have also started romantic candlelight trysts at home.
When the lights were turned off, a restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand temporarily stopped serving hot food and heated drinks, but people attending the candlelight banquet were still crowded with the restaurant. After the lights are turned off, the Sheraton Chicago Hotel provides guests with glowing ice cubes in the lobby, which is unique.
In the square in Copenhagen, Denmark, many people look up at the sky and stars. A spokesman for the World Wide Fund for Nature in Denmark said: "In the city, I'm afraid the days when you can see the stars are numbered."
In the Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland, the Irish Astronomical Society has set up a huge telescope for people, hoping that people can enjoy the "splendid starry sky" when the city lights go out. Perhaps the best use of time is in some buildings in Chicago, such as the John Hancock Center, where managers used the lights-out time to permanently replace hundreds of incandescent bulbs with energy-saving ones.
In view of how to spend an hour on the evening of March 28th this year, the famous pianist Lang Lang's suggestion is humorous: "Listening to music in a dark environment can highly concentrate and completely immerse yourself in the melody. At that moment, you will be deeply moved and will stimulate your imagination. "
"Don't underestimate turning off the lights for an hour," said Hongyi, vice president of Bigen Investment China. "This city is one of the places that use a lot of electricity. If the city can turn off the unnecessary landscape lights for an hour, the energy saved will be a great number. "
"In just 60 minutes, you can actually make a great contribution to the earth, because every time you save 1 kWh, you reduce the emissions of 1 kg of carbon dioxide and 0.03 kg of sulfur dioxide." A WWF volunteer said.
According to statistics, in 2007, the first year of Earth Hour, Sydney, Australia set a goal of reducing energy consumption by 5%; On March 3rd last year 1 day, the electricity saved by Sydney alone was enough for 200,000 TV sets1hour, which was equivalent to 486 13 cars running for one hour less on the road, and the effect of energy saving and emission reduction was remarkable.
Hony said that "Earth Hour" unites the world through such a simple and direct way of activity, and reminds people to stop living and think about how to deal with global warming.
In his view, "many a mickle makes a mickle", with less and less non-renewable energy today, if more and more cities, enterprises and individuals participate in environmental protection and energy-saving activities such as "Earth Hour", it will help to promote energy conservation and greenhouse gas emission reduction, and further alleviate the environmental problems caused by global warming.
As an activity to raise public awareness of environmental protection, "Earth Hour" is just the beginning. For a city that has fulfilled the promise of "Earth Hour", advocating energy conservation and environmental protection after turning off the lights is the real meaning.
"Earth Hour" is more than just a light-off ceremony. In China, this activity is also the biggest support for the country to achieve the energy efficiency goal of 20% energy saving and emission reduction by 20 10, aiming at encouraging individuals and enterprises to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and take active actions to deal with climate change. "Earth Hour" is an energy-saving concept. Whether we use electricity at work or at home, we need our long-term efforts and support, and always remind ourselves to turn off unnecessary lights and unplug unnecessary power.
Awakening of environmental consciousness
1962, Rachel Carson, an American biologist, wrote in her book Silent Spring, which was later called the first time that human beings paid attention to environmental issues, "We took great risks and tried our best to transform nature to meet our wishes", "But the fact is that nature is not easy to be shaped", and the long-term road of human development "seems flat and comfortable, but
In the process of development, mankind has accumulated too much debt to the environment. History cannot be changed, but the future can be designed-after Carson's inspiring cry, human awareness of environmental protection began to sprout, and more and more countries, enterprises and individuals began to embark on the road of environmental protection and explore the road of sustainable development of energy conservation and environmental protection, which is exactly what Carson refers to as "another fork in the road that can save the earth-a road that few people take".
The awakening of consciousness is transformed into effective action. In the 1970s, the heavily polluted Rhine River was once dubbed as the "European Sewer", but now it is full of vitality, with waterfowl and wild ducks swimming in the Qingshui River. London, which was foggy all day in the eyes of Oliver, an orphan described by Dickens, has now regained its beautiful face; Freon, which destroyed the ozone layer, was eliminated, automobile exhaust emissions were restricted, and the development of renewable energy was in the ascendant. ...
People are taking more environmental protection actions. More and more people take part in "Car Free Day" activities, and more and more people realize the significance of "Plastic Restriction Order". The "Earth Hour" activity, which was only the "Sydney Incident" four years ago, has now become a global environmental protection activity covering hundreds of millions of people in thousands of cities ... People living in different corners of the globe are responding to each other with practical actions, inspiring human courage to cope with environmental challenges.
Turning off the lights for an hour may be just a drop in the bucket for saving energy and reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases and other polluting gases caused by power generation. However, when the environmental awareness inspired by this is deeply rooted in people's hearts and transformed into ideas, when ideas are transformed into actions, and when actions become habits, the contribution to global environmental protection will never be limited to numbers.
Development history
In 2007
The "Earth Hour" event was first held in Sydney, Australia at 8:30 pm on March 3, 2007. That night, more than 2.2 million families and businesses in Sydney turned off their lights and appliances for an hour. According to statistics afterwards, the electricity saved by turning off the lights for one hour is enough for 200,000 TVs to run 1 hour and 50,000 cars to run 1 hour. Many participating citizens reported that they could see several times more stars than usual that night.
Subsequently, from this limited scale, "Earth Hour" swept the world at an alarming rate. Only one year later, the "Earth Hour" has been recognized as one of the biggest global actions to deal with climate change, and has become a global and sustainable activity.
the year of 2008
On March 29, 2008, as many as 50 million people from 35 countries participated in it, which proved that individual actions together can really change the world.
At 8: 00 pm on March 29th, 2008, Suva, the capital of Fiji, the third largest city in New Zealand, was plunged into darkness, and the "Earth Time" environmental protection activity initiated by WWF began to be held in the global relay. This activity aims to arouse people's vigilance against climate change. Let everyone know that there is only one earth, and if things continue to develop, the earth will be destroyed. Local restaurants and bars lit candles, held candlelight dinners, and shops closed neon lights. Thousands of families also answered the call and lit their homes with candles that night.
That night, the island nation of Suva, Fiji, fell into darkness. Two "samurai" dressed in local traditional costumes lit the torch and passed it to Suva Port. Rowing enthusiasts held the torch and lit 100 candles in the sea, symbolizing that more than 100 islands under Fiji's jurisdiction are facing the challenge of climate change. Subsequently, "Earth Time" activities spread to Australia. Only sporadic lights can be seen in Sydney at 8 o'clock that night. The Sydney Opera House put out the lights of the huge shell-shaped building, and the harbour bridge also turned off the lights. Local event organizers said that among the 350 commercial buildings in downtown, 250 were completely turned off.
With the rotation of the earth, the activity of "Earth Time" continued westward and entered Manila, Bucharest, Warsaw, Johannesburg, Geneva ... Some enterprises and institutions in China, Beijing, Tianjin and other cities also participated in this activity.
Due to the time difference, cities in the United States and other American countries took over the last stick of the "Earth Time" activity. On March 29, 2008, at 20:00-2 1:00 local time, many American metropolises, which have always been famous for their bright lights, fell into darkness.
In 2009
In 2009, "Earth Hour" came to Baoding, China, which is known as "China Electric Valley". Baoding is the first city in mainland China to officially announce its participation in this activity. In addition, China cities officially confirmed by WWF to participate in the event include Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, Nanjing, Nanchang, Hangzhou, Changsha, Changchun, Hong Kong, Macau and Taipei. At 20:30-2 1:30 on March 27th, 2009, the lights in the above cities were turned off for one hour. More than 3,000 cities in more than 80 countries and regions around the world have created this beautiful "dark moment" and contributed to the future of the earth.
To this end, the British National Football Museum, the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest hotel, the Canadian National Television Tower, the Moscow Federal Building and the official residence of Italian President and China president in Rome, all turned off their lights for one hour. The landmark building of Victoria Pier in Hong Kong also turned off its lights for one hour to express its determination to deal with climate change.
The "Earth Hour" campaign was launched in China at the end of 2008, and it has also made positive progress, with hundreds of enterprises including Coca-Cola and Canon joining the campaign. IKEA, Wal-Mart and New World China Real Estate in Beijing and Shanghai also held activities in different ways. Gaode Group (China) also provided free advertising space for bus bodies and subway light boxes in Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin to support the "Earth Hour" activities.
In addition, a series of public service advertisements have appeared, in which Li Bingbing, Ambassador of Earth Hour China District, participated. On the evening of March 27th, Li Bingbing joined the "Earth Hour" with everyone. Li Bingbing said: "The earth is our common home, and everyone has the responsibility to save energy. I hope that we can use our own strength to call on more people to participate in this meaningful activity and express our determination to jointly address climate change. "
20 10 year
On March 20 10/0, Ms. Jing Hui, Director of the International Liaison Department of the World Wide Fund for Nature, awarded Chris Lee the certificate of "Promotion Ambassador of China District, Earth Hour". Chris Lee said, "It is a great honor to be the promotion ambassador of China District, Earth Hour. Now more and more people attach importance to environmental protection, because more and more people understand that environmental protection is actually everyone's business. We should work harder to promote environmental protection, join the global action of low-carbon development and protect our homeland. "
The launching ceremony of "Earth Hour" China 20 10 was held on March 10 at Chengdu Giant Panda Research Base, the largest artificial breeding institution of giant pandas in the world. Twenty-four lanterns symbolizing "Mei Lan", the global promotion ambassador of "Earth Hour", and the handprints of Cui Jian and Chris Lee, the promotion ambassadors of Li Bingbing and China, were lit and released by 24 environmental guards, which opened the prelude to "Earth Hour".
In the 20 10 "Earth Hour" event, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) chose Baidu as the most important Internet partner in China to publicize the event and provide technical support for official website.
As of March 27th, 20 10, 33 cities in China have joined the "Earth Hour" activity sponsored by WWF. Global 1 18 More than 2,500 cities in countries and regions have pledged to participate in the activities in 20 10. Some landmark buildings, groups and individuals in these cities will turn off their lights from 20: 30 to 2 1: 30 on the 27th to express their willingness to cope with global climate change. WWF also extended the "Low Carbon Life Week" in China, and put forward the daily targets of energy saving and emission reduction, including saving water 1 liter, saving paper 10, and reducing the use of plastic bags.
20 1 1 year
The "Earth Hour" of 20 1 1 will not only turn off the lights for an hour, but also take action against global warming. While advocating that homes, offices, government buildings and landmarks be turned off for one hour, "Earth Hour" will also devote itself to promoting sustainable environmental protection actions. By then, residents, enterprises and governments from Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa and America will make their own energy-saving and low-carbon efforts for the sustainable environmental protection actions that everyone will take in the coming year.
20 1 1 On March 26th, "Earth Hour" once again triggered the voluntary participation of cities, enterprises and individuals all over the world. On that day, 134 countries and regions around the world started the relay of turning off the lights, and 86 cities in China joined the "Earth Hour" activity.
20 12
On March 3rd, 2065438, WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) announced the launch of the 20 12 annual "Earth Hour" advertising campaign with the theme "Everyone has an environmentalist in his heart". The publicity aims to help realize the goal of "Earth Hour", that is, to encourage individuals, enterprises and governments to make at least one environmental change in their daily activities. In 20 12, 24 cities in Chinese mainland participated in the activity.
20 13
In 20 13, the "Earth Hour" activity in 20 13 was advanced to March 23rd, 20 13. In 20 13, 27 cities in Chinese mainland participated in the activity.
Theme: I'm a green V guest, "Choose one of seven environmental protection, come together every week".
In addition to the "lights out" in previous years, a new tradition has been introduced: I hope citizens can choose their favorite actions every week and implement corresponding environmental changes on this day of each week to become "green visitors":
Monday: eat more vegetables; Tuesday: environmental protection bag; Wednesday: no driving; Thursday: bring your own chopsticks; Friday: no leftovers; Saturday: Love animals; Sunday: Go outdoors and give up the house.
In 20 13, the landmark buildings in various countries, including Sydney Opera House, Empire State Building, Tokyo Tower, Burj Khalifa and Buckingham Palace, also turned off their lights for one hour at 8: 30 pm local time. These include Palestinian, French Guiana, Galapagos Islands, Rwanda, St Helena, Suriname, Tunisia and other countries and regions that participated in the "Earth Hour" for the first time. In China, the lights of Beijing Bird's Nest, Water Cube and World Trade Center day order went out at the same time. At the same time, from the Oriental Pearl in Shanghai to the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, from Taipei 10 1 to the Hong Kong skyline 100 observation deck, many landmark buildings in China turned off their lights for one hour, and 127 cities nationwide * * joined the "Earth Hour" event. [5]
20 14
20 14 Earth Hour lights-out activity is scheduled to be held at 20:30-2 1:30 on Saturday, March 29th.
20 14 Earth Hour theme: blue sky is made by yourself.
"We set the theme of Earth Hour as' Blue sky makes us' to echo the most urgent and concerned environmental problem in China-smog. Lu Siwei, Director-General of China District of Earth Hour, said, "The blue sky is self-made, which aims to appeal to every citizen, every enterprise and every level of government to take practical actions to deal with smog and purify the air. "
Earth Hour launched the "Earth Hour Blue" program around the world to build a support platform for environmental protection projects. Spider-Man, the superhero in the sci-fi action movie "The Extraordinary spider-man 2", will co-star with Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx and director mark webb in the "Earth Hour Blue" project.
20 15
Earth Hour 20 15 will be held at 20:30 on March 28th, 20 15.
In 20 15, the theme of Earth Hour in China district was "seeing the blue". 2015 February 10 was published by WWF.
20 16
20 16 "Earth Hour" will be held on March 19 from 8: 30pm to 9: 30pm. WWF will participate in the "Earth Hour" lights-out activity hosted by Dachang, and award Dachang the title of "Wei" blue city partner in Chaobaihe Economic Development Zone, so as to promote more and more cities and the public to participate in activities for one hour or more and make practical environmental protection changes for the blue sky. Starting from the "Earth Hour" activity, we linked a series of creative environmental protection activities, such as various units and schools' environmental commitment declaration actions, public welfare "running plan" and "our creative life" collection, to further strengthen the public's green environmental protection concept and ecological environmental awareness, and promote the popularization and deepening of sustainable living and consumption patterns [8].
20 17
20 17 Earth Hour time: 2065438+20:30-2 1:30 on March 25th, 2007. Theme: blue, here we come.
On March 201July 17, the Youth League Committee of Ruihai Garden Resort, a subsidiary of Capital Airport Tourism Company, entered Mihong Park in Miyun District to carry out youth volunteer service activities, advocating the public to help Earth Hour and deliver the blue new WE. Volunteers popularize the relationship between personal life behavior and climate change to the public. Advocate to turn off unnecessary power-consuming equipment such as light sources at 20: 30-265,438+0: 30 on March 25th, 1965, and advocate to make changes from five aspects: share unused clothes with people who need them instead of simply throwing them away, order moderately to eliminate waste, shop intelligently and rationally, and choose to walk or ride bicycles more. Start from the dribs and drabs of daily life, participate in environmental protection actions, practice sustainable life and consumption patterns, and exert our common strength for the blue future, for you, me and him.
United Nations Secretary-General Guterres issued a video announcement for the "Earth Hour" lights-out activity, announcing that the United Nations headquarters in new york and offices around the world will also be turned off at that time, to show firm support for the global efforts to combat climate change. He also called on people all over the world to join the action of turning off the lights at 8: 30 pm local time on March 25th. "Through darkness, we can create an inclusive and sustainable world!"
20 18
On March 20 18, the "Earth Hour" activity sponsored by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) scheduled the lights-out ceremony at 20:30 on March 24, 20 18. At that time, individuals, communities, enterprises and governments will spontaneously turn off the lights for one hour to stimulate people's sense of responsibility to protect the earth and think about environmental issues such as climate change.
20 19
20 19 In March, the "Earth Hour" activity sponsored by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) scheduled the lights-out ceremony at 8:30 pm on March 30th, when individuals, communities, enterprises and governments would turn off their lights for one hour spontaneously, to stimulate people's sense of responsibility for protecting the earth and to think about environmental issues such as climate change.
the year of 2020
On the evening of March 28th, 2020, under the background of COVID-19 epidemic raging around the world, the activities in 2020 highlighted the characteristics of "digitalization" and the importance of protecting nature. The key word of "Earth Hour" in 2020 is "Together". I hope everyone can meet the challenge together.
In 2020, many parts of the world will participate in the environmental protection activities of "Earth Hour" by turning off the lights, and * * * will express its determination to protect the earth's homeland. Against the background of COVID-19 epidemic raging around the world, the activity highlighted the characteristics of "digitalization" and the importance of protecting nature.
202 1 year
The theme of 202 1 Earth Hour is "Speaking for the Earth and Living with Nature". Everything in nature is closely related to you and me. When biodiversity gradually disappears, the healthy and prosperous future of mankind will also be threatened. Let's protect biodiversity together and speak for the earth. Meet 2030: Vientiane updates and returns to nature! Strive to achieve three goals in 2030:
1. The number of species extinctions caused by human activities is 0.
2. The loss of natural habitat is 0.
3. Put an end to waste and promote sustainable development and consumption
In 2022
The theme of Earth Hour in 2022 is "Action! * * * Create the future ".
On March 26th, 2022, many places around the world participated in Earth Hour activities.
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