All over the world, from the most famous monuments to citizens' homes, on Saturday March 30 at 20:30 am hundreds of millions of people will turn off their lights and participate in the great wave of shutdowns of Earth Hour, the Earth Hour, the largest mobilization on the theme of climate changes.
The data on climate change stands getting worse every day, the lack of reaction to decarbonise our waste is becoming unsustainable. The concentration of carbon dioxide it arrived in 2018 to 408 ppm (parts per million volume), was the fourth warmest year globally. In some days of the first months of the 2019 has also surpassed the 410 ppm. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750 was of 277 ppm.
Scientists have launched more than one appeal, recalling that if we do not change course to our economies and lifestyles, we will reach the state of "Hothouse Earth”, that is, we will transform the planet into a "hot house". Indeed, from the analysis of paleoclimates, i.e. the collections on the climates of past geological periods, it emerges that current data could take us back to period of the Miocene, dating back to 15/17 million years ago, in which the CO2 concentration on earth reached values higher than 400 ppm reaching 500. Temperatures were higher by 4 ° / 5 ° C and the sea level was higher by 10 / 60 meters compared to the current situation. But the most relevant fact is that in that period, it wasn't there no form of hominid that roamed the earth.
“Nature is in dramatic decline as never before. A global action for the conservation of natural capital is increasingly urgent, which cannot be separated from a cultural change in our lifestyles, our production systems and our consumption models” he declares Donatella Bianchi, president of WWF Italy, who chose Matera, the European capital of culture, for its event.
They will be more than 160 the countries that will participate in Earth Hour and thousands of places that will turn off their lights as a symbol to save the country: from Eiffel Tower at the Opera House of Sydney, fromEmpire State Building from New York at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. L'Ecuador is pushing for a law to abolish the use of plastic in the capital Quito, while the Finland will challenge more than a quarter of the population to eat a more balanced diet. The Kenya will plant one million trees by 2030 andIndonesia is encouraging young people to adopt a greener lifestyle.
In Italy the central event will be a Matera, the European Capital of Culture 2019. They will turn off the lights from 20: 30 to 21: 30 in one of the most significant places of the Città dei Sassi. All the lights of the buildings of main institutions national receips will be turned off: those of the Quirinale, Palazzo Madama, Palazzo Montecitorio, Palazzo Chigi. Are 400 municipalities who have adhered to Earth Hour 2019, with the switching off of monuments, buildings or symbolic places. 47 organizations affiliated to the WWF.
The big Italian cities will not remain insensitive. In Milan, the Sforzesco castle shuts down, in Rome the Colosseum, the Basilica and the colonnade of St. Peter; in Naples the lights of the Maschio Angioino, Castel dell'Ovo and the Town Hall will go out, in Turin the Mole Antonelliana, in Verona the Arena, in Bari the 197 historic lampposts along the seafront will go out, in Reggio Calabria the sanctuary of the Collina degli Angels, in Venice the main lights of Piazza San Marco, in Palermo the Teatro Massimo, in Isernia the Fontana Fraterna. Here you are the map with all the Italian events dedicated to Earth Hour.
The last ten Earth Hours have inspired millions of people to support conservation initiatives. Among the most important things, this mobilization has contributed to create 3,5 million hectares of marine protected areas in Argentina and 2.700 hectares of forest in Uganda, has made it possible to ban plastic materials in the Galapagos since 2014, to plant 17 million trees in Kazakhstan, to light houses with solar energy in India and the Philippines and to promote new laws to protect the seas and forests in Russia. Then just last year, French Polynesia moved to protect 5 million square kilometers of its seas in order to preserve ocean ecosystems.
UNICREDIT WILL PARTICIPATE IN 14 COUNTRIES
UniCredit on the occasion of the initiative, it will turn off the lights of for an hour 74 buildings in 14 countries: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary. In this way the banking group will adhere to the twelfth year consecutive at the big global event.
