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Romania Officially Joins Earth Hour 2009 Global Campaign

Romania officially joined this year the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming, within the Earth Hour international event organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and held on the last Saturday of March each year.
Romania Officially Joins Earth Hour 2009 Global Campaign
28 mart. 2009, 15:59, English

Official buildings in seven cities in Romania, namely capital city Bucharest, Brasov, Botosani, Cluj, Iasi, Timisoara and Tulcea, will go dark for an hour on Saturday, March 28, starting 8.30 pm.

Campaign organizers in Romania said lights on Bucharest’s Palace of Parliament, Romanian Athenaeum, National Museum of Art, National Military Circle and National Opera House will be switched off from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm.
 
Romania’s National Institute of Administration also announced it would join the “Earth Hour 2009” campaign to raise awareness on the need to take action on climate change.
 
Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights.
 
Earth Hour 2008 was celebrated on all seven continents. Iconic landmarks all around the world turned off their non-essential lighting for Earth Hour which included the Empire State Building (New York City), Sears Tower (Chicago), Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco), Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta), Sydney Opera House (Sydney, Australia), Wat Arun Buddhist Temple (Bangkok, Thailand), the Colosseum (Rome, Italy), Royal Castle (Stockholm, Sweden), London’s City Hall (England), Space Needle (Seattle, USA), the CN Tower (Toronto, Canada) and SM Mall of Asia & SM Science Discovery Center (Manila, Philippines).
 
In 2009, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote.
 
Organizers call it a ‘global election’, with switching off the lights a vote for the Earth and failure to do so a vote for global warming.
 
WWF says it will present the results at a conference on climate change in Copenhagen later this year, where governments will try to sign a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
 
Earth Hour asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness on the need to take action on climate change.