Vietnam participates in Earth Hour organized by WWF

At exactly 20:30 on March 28, many people throughout Vietnam were first called upon to turn off unnecessary lights and electrical equipment for one hour on the occasion of the World Nature Reserve 2009 Earth Hour ( WWF), supporting efforts to combat global warming.

Earthhour campaign calls for power shutdown for 60 minutes.Photo: SMH.

The Earth Hour program is continuing to broadcast the message of the importance of energy saving across Vietnam, in order to appeal to the participation of individuals, businesses, governments and social organizations. Domestic businesses are making efforts to contribute to Earth Hour and will turn off their lights on the night of the event.

Many people throughout Vietnam will also light candles, support the global initiative, with the goal of raising awareness of global warming.

The light-off initiative was first implemented in Sydney in 2007 as a WWF public awareness campaign. After that, the event has grown strongly in the past two years and now 74 cities are ready to participate in the campaign for 2009. Some of the cities committed to participating include Los Angeles, Las Vegas, London, Hongkong, Sydney, Rome, Manila, Oslo, Cape Town, Warsaw, Lisbon, Singapore, Istanbul, Mexico City, Toronto, Dubai, Moscow and Copenhagen.

An estimated 50 to 100 million people worldwide have turned off lights in the Earth Hour campaign in 2008. Many iconic works around the world like San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge, Rome Coliseum, billboards Coca Cola at New York Times Square and Dubai Jumeirah Hotel have been in darkness for an hour.

In 2009, Earth Hour is expected to involve 1 billion people around the world, in more than 1,000 cities. Vietnam was called to join this event by turning off the lights at 8.30pm on Saturday 28 March, to demonstrate that an action with the participation of individuals, businesses and organizations above It is possible to counteract global warming.

Sign up for the planet's largest environmental event at www.earthhour.org.