178 Countries Dim Their Lights for Earth Hour 2016 Agence France-Presse
go to original March 20, 2016

WWF's Earth Hour rolled across the world uniting millions to shine a light on climate action and help #ChangeClimateChange. (Earth Hour)

From Sydney’s Opera House to New York’s Empire State Building and Paris’s Eiffel Tower, landmarks worldwide dimmed their lights Saturday (Sunday in Manila) for the 10th edition of the Earth Hour campaign against climate change.

Millions of people from 178 countries and territories took part in the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour this year, organizers said, with monuments and buildings such as Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate plunging into darkness for 60 minutes from 8:30 p.m. local time.

The annual event kicked off in Sydney, where the Earth Hour idea originated in 2007.

Earth Hour’s global executive director Siddarth Das said organizers were excited about how much the movement had grown since it began nine years ago.

“From one city, it has now grown to over 178 countries and territories and over 7,000 cities, so we couldn’t be happier about how millions of people across the world are coming together for climate action.”

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