25 March 2017
2017 will be the 10th year of Earth Hour! That is 10 years that the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) can celebrate the world's progress on changing climate change.
Earth Hour started as a grassroots movement in Austrlia, but today has grown into the world's biggest movement for climate change. What first started in Sydney in 2007, will this year be celebrated in 172+ countries and 7000+ cities all over the world!
#JoinTheFuture on Saturday, 25th March, by SWITCHING OFF your power from 8:30pm to 9:30pm local time.
WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
THE FACTS:
From the Earth Hour website
CORAL REEFS
At current rates of global temperature rise, oceans will become too hot for coral reefs by 2050, resulting in the loss of Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Ningaloo Reef.
BUSH LANDS
If temperatures rise at 2.9°C above pre-industrial levels by 2050, the frequency of 'very high' fire danger days would inscrease by 20-100% and 'extreme' fire danger days would increase by 100-300%.