Tbilisi to Join Global Earth Hour Event

On Saturday March 25th, Tbilisi will celebrate Earth Hour with an event in Dedaena Park. The event will have a drum show, dance performance, and music by The Loudspeakers. This year the Earth Hour theme is climate change, one of the major environmental challenges our word is facing today.

Since 2007 when Earth Hour was first held in Sidney, Australia, Earth Hour has become a global call for climate change initiatives, joined by  millions of people, volunteers, governments, and international organizations.

The Global Earth Hour is coordinated by World Wildlife Fund (WWF). In 2016 alone, Earth Hour was observed in 178 countries, with 6,600 events held in different parts of the world, and almost 400 landmarks were switched off.    

The Earth Hour event in Tbilisi, organized by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection of Georgia, will start at 8:30 p m at Dedaena Park this Saturday.

 As Nino Tkhilava, Head of Environment Protection Policy and International Relations Department, at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection of Georgia said in a TV comment, public organizations, banks, international organizations in Georgia will all join Earth Hour by turning off their lights for one entire hour on the 25th of March. The Tbilisi Municipality and the Government Administration Office are joining the initiative also according to her, with lights to be turned off at Narikala and in the Old Tbilisi neighborhood.

Celebrating Earth Hour is an opportunity for all of us to give our earth a break; it’s a chance to stop, think and analyze, where the resources we use in our everyday lives come from; it’s a chance to address global environment issues.