Earth Hour has visited Mendoza and the world

The lights of the iconic Opera House and Sydney Harbor Bridge turn off this Saturday for an hour from 8:30 pm to 10 am Argentina, giving the go-ahead the global "Earth Hour" campaign, which seeks to raise awareness of climate change and has also benefited from support in the city of Buenos Aires.

Elsewhere on the planet, from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm, many monuments and iconic buildings have remained in the dark, such as the Shanghai Tower, Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong, Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai, Red Square in Moscow, Acropolis in Athens, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the pyramids of Egypt, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Big Ben in London, the Corcovado in Rio and the United Nations headquarters in New York.

Meanwhile, in Buenos Aires, in addition to staying in the dark of public buildings and buildings located in squares or promenades, such as the Palermo Planetarium, a new edition of the race for "La Hora del Planeta" took place take place in Costanera Sur with the aim of demonstrating that "climate change is important".

The sporting event, organized by the Wildlife Foundation, was held in night mode, with a start at 8:30 pm and courses of 3K and 8K.

Also in the city of La Plata were extinguished, between 20:30 and 21:30, the lights of the Municipal Palace in accordance with the awareness campaign "Earth Hour".

The capital city of Buenos Aires has also invited all La Plata residents to join this initiative, which has been running for more than 10 years around the world.

"Earth Hour 2019 offers us a tremendous opportunity to launch an unstoppable movement for nature that helps to ensure an international commitment to stopping and reversing ecosystem decline," said Marco Lambertini, chief executive officer of the organization, in a statement. Global Fund for NGOs (WWF), which promotes this initiative.

The campaign aims to "educate citizens around the world about the importance of nature and inspire global actions to preserve it", explained the organization for the environment in a document quoted by EFE.

With the hashtag "LaHoraDelPlaneta" and "ApagaPorLaNaturaleza", messages circulate on social networks that invite you to join the campaign.

Unlike the other editions, this year the voluntary power outage included three other challenges: not eating meat, not consuming plastic and not emitting CO2 throughout the day, in order to raise public awareness environmental damage to livestock, plastics and carbon.

Earth Hour was held for the first time in Sydney in 2007 and it is estimated that in 2018, they decided to turn off their lights – still at 8:30 pm local time – millions of people in 7,000 cities, in more than 188 countries. everybody.