Earth Hour 2019: switch off your lights, and become an innovator

The text frames Earth Hour as a grassroots movement that empowers individuals to act as innovators in the fight against climate change and nature loss. It highlights the movement's role in driving specific environmental achievements globally and calls for a similar surge of public activity to influence the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP15 in 2020 and the implementation of a 'New Deal for Nature and People'.

• Earth Hour has evolved from a 2007 symbolic gesture in Sydney into the largest grassroots environmental movement globally, encompassing over 7,000 cities across more than 180 countries and territories.
• The movement has contributed to several concrete environmental outcomes, including the creation of a 3.5 million-hectare marine-protected area in Argentina, a 2,700-hectare forest in Uganda, a total plastic ban in the Galapagos, the planting of 17 million trees in Kazakhstan, solar power installation in India and the Philippines, and new legislation for sea and forest protection in Russia.
• In 2018, French Polynesia established protection for five million square kilometres of its seas to maintain ocean ecosystems.
• The author emphasizes the need for global public pressure leading up to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP15 in 2020 to ensure world leaders prioritize nature and commit to a 'New Deal for Nature and People' to reverse nature loss.
• The document cites the WWF’s 2018 Living Planet Report, which indicates that the population size of some species has declined by an average of 60% in less than 50 years.

APA

Das, S. (2019). Earth Hour 2019: switch off your lights, and become an innovator. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/stories/climate-action/earth-hour-2019-switch-off-lights-become-innovator-nature-loss/

Chicago

Das, Sid. Earth Hour 2019: switch off your lights, and become an innovator. World Economic Forum, 2019. https://www.weforum.org/stories/climate-action/earth-hour-2019-switch-off-lights-become-innovator-nature-loss/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=Das |first1=Sid |title=Earth Hour 2019: switch off your lights, and become an innovator |publisher=World Economic Forum |date=29 March 2019 |url=https://www.weforum.org/stories/climate-action/earth-hour-2019-switch-off-lights-become-innovator-nature-loss/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{das2019earth, author = {Das, Sid}, title = {{Earth Hour 2019: switch off your lights, and become an innovator}}, publisher = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2019}, month = mar, url = {https://www.weforum.org/stories/climate-action/earth-hour-2019-switch-off-lights-become-innovator-nature-loss/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }