Earth Hour Participation

The Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD) has urged all citizens, companies and public institutions throughout the emirate to switch their lights off on Saturday for one hour as part of Earth Hour this year.

Earth Hour is an annual international event, begun by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) that calls on individuals and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour.

This year, Earth Hour will take place around the world on Saturday at 8:30pm-9:30pm local time for the UAE.

EAD will organise an internal awareness gathering for its employees and partners to screen a film demonstrating the simple ways to conserve energy.

Around the world, Earth Hour aims to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.

Earth Hour’s aim is to target more than one billion people in 1,000 cities across 80 countries around the world.

The event will be seeing millions of people gathered in parks, streets, town squares and homes around the world to witness the lights going out on iconic landmarks and city skylines, while taking in the atmosphere of some truly unique Earth Hour events.

“Earth Hour is not intended to be the solution to global warming but rather a way of affirming our commitment to tackling what is the most serious challenge presently facing humanity,” said Majid Al Mansouri, secretary general of EAD.

“EAD strongly urges Abu Dhabi businesses, governmental organizations and individuals to stand together to highlight the urgent need to reduce energy use in our emirate and right around the world. We must work together to raise public awareness and pass a strong message that something can be done and must be done today,” he added.