Today is, 27 March, Earth Hour -
Earth Hour
, a global event, WWF will culminate tonight at 20:30 with an hour of darkness to raise awareness and governments on emergency climate and the need to protect nature.
"Speak Up For Nature" is the claim chosen for the 2021 edition of this event born in 2007, when only the city of Sidney was involved, to become in the following years "the great wave of darkness that it quickly spread to every corner of the planet, leaving symbolic squares, streets and monuments in the dark ".
In recalling it, the WWF explains that during the day musical contributions by Italian artists, groups and musicians will alternate
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, and at 8.30 pm the main monuments around the world will turn off, while citizens will be able to turn off the lights of their homes and make their voices heard for nature through their social and web channels.
"Earth Hour is back again this year which will involve tens of millions of people around the world. These people, through a symbolic gesture, that of turning off the lights for an hour, will ask governments, companies and citizens to act quickly. to make that green revolution come true that until now has only been in words and announcements "declares the president of WWF Italy Donatella Bianchi who adds:" In this edition, the WWF asks everyone to 'give a voice to nature', to expect that the right value is given to our natural capital which is the basis of our health, our well-being, our food, our water, our air: in a word of our life. Defending biodiversity means defending the future of humanity and the quality of our existence on the Planet. Then all together 'Speak up for nature' with the usual hour of darkness which represents the strong, decisive and unequivocal request for a different future.
we and for those who will come after us ".
From 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm the lights of the main symbolic places of Italian cities will go out, in particular Rome will turn off the lights of the Colosseum, Palazzo Senatorio and St. Peter's Basilica, Verona the lights of the millenary Arena of Verona and Florence will turn off the lights of Palazzo Vecchio, Torre Arnolfo, Ponte Vecchio and Santa Maria del Fiore, Bari the Lanterns of Lungomare N. Sauro, the Clock Tower, the facade of the Institutional Palace of the metropolitan city;
in Caserta the Royal Palace will be shut down.
This evening the external lights of the Palazzo del Quirinale, Palazzo Madama and Palazzo Montecitorio will also be turned off and the lights of the internal courtyard of Palazzo Chigi, which will keep the tricolor on the facade as a symbol of the values of unity, responsibility and solidarity. proper to the entire national community.
The municipalities that have joined the initiative throughout Italy are more than 300 and will relaunch the initiative on their social channels and with local shutdowns.
These include the municipalities of the metropolitan city of Rome and over 30 municipalities in Abruzzo.
