Earth Hour: Why Neuquén joins the worldwide power outage

As every year, the municipality of the capital adheres to the proposal and invites the population not only to stop consuming electricity for one hour, but also to symbolic activity with candles in the esplanade of Parque Central from 20h, that she will lead with the civil badociation of Scouts of Argentina-Zone 37.

"These are awareness activities to carry out as a family and transmit through them the importance of saving energy for the youngest"said Silvia Gutiérrez, Undersecretary for the Environment, who said it was a proposal that attracts "still a lot of young people, they have already scheduled this date and are still present".

The official also recalled that the city was joining the global call for the closure of its monuments and landmark buildings, which in this case will be the monument to San Martín, the municipal palace, the Plaza del Bicentenario and the deliberative council, as established by Order 12.235.

"Earth Hour", which celebrates its twelfth edition this Saturday, reaffirms this year the need to sensitize society to the fragility of the environment and put an end to the degradation of nature. How Act individually to achieve a global change to the level of damage done up to now.

According to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an increase of 1.5 to 2 degrees centigrade could be achieved in a few decades without reducing carbon dioxide emissions. current This would have very negative effects on ecosystems and human health.

In 2018, thousands of cities in 188 countries extinguished the light of more than 17,000 iconic buildings and landmarks,

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