{"id":62335,"date":"2019-03-29T17:03:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T21:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=62335"},"modified":"2019-03-29T17:03:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T21:03:39","slug":"earth-hour-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2019\/03\/earth-hour-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Hour 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>To signal the United Nations\u2019 continued support for climate action, the Organization will participate in <strong>Earth Hour<\/strong>, a global lights-off event coordinated by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and other volunteer organizations, on Saturday, 30 March from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Earth Hour is an opportunity to show support for ambitious climate action, by turning off your lights this Saturday, March 30<sup>th<\/sup>, at 8:30 p.m. local time. Together, let\u2019s build a cleaner, safer and greener future for everyone. <em>UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Started as a symbolic lights-out event in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour is one of the world&#8217;s largest grassroots movement for the environment, inspiring millions of people to take action for our planet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Gqlmnv\">As in past years<\/a>, the UN Headquarters building in New York as well as other facilities around the world will be taking part in this symbolic initiative. Join us in taking a stand for climate action and turn off your lights for Earth Hour this Saturday!<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthhour.org\/\">www.earthhour.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#EarthHour #Connect2Earth<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To signal the United Nations\u2019 continued support for climate action, the Organization will participate in Earth Hour, a global lights-off event coordinated by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and other volunteer organizations, on Saturday, 30 March from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-news","category-video-climate-change","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}