Municipality of Loulé turns off the lights to protect the planet
Earth Hour March 23, from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm on March 23rd, the Municipality of Loulé will once again be one of the points on the Globe where the lights will go out, in a symbolic moment of reflection on climate change.
The Municipality is thus once again associated with Earth Hour, an environmental action promoted internationally by the global nature conservation organization Associação Natureza Portugal | World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
“Small actions with big impact” is the motto of Earth Hour 2024. This initiative has become a moment of action, remembering that we can and should all play an active role in preserving and recovering nature.
Portuguese municipalities have been making history as invaluable partners in this global movement, whether by carrying out local actions or through the temporary blackout of some of their main monuments.
At a local level, the Municipality of Loulé undertakes to turn off the lights in several buildings and public spaces in the municipality, for 60 minutes, on March 23: Paços do Concelho, Edifício Eng.º Duarte Pacheco/Assembleia Municipal, Monumento Eng .º Duarte Pacheco, Loulé Municipal Market, Cineteatro Louletano, Loulé de Loulé Castle Wall, Quarteira Municipal Center and buildings of the parish councils of S. Sebastião, S. Clemente, Quarteira, Almancil, Salir, Querença, Tôr, Benafim, Boliqueime, Alte and Ameixial.
This initiative is intrinsically linked to one of the most important goals of the Municipality, the fulfilment of the goals related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, by highlighting the importance of collective action and awareness for better adaptation and mitigation of impacts of climate change, align directly with SDG 13 – Climate Action, with SDG 7 – Clean and Affordable Energy, and SDG 15 – Protection of Life on Earth, by highlighting the need to protect ecosystems and biodiversity for a future more sustainable.
Remember that, for more than 15 years, Earth Hour, a historic WWF event, has represented a global movement of millions of people around the world who come together, through a symbolic gesture, to express their commitment to the Planet. This initiative emerged in Sydney, Australia, when, in a stance against climate change, 2.2 million people and more than 2 thousand companies turned off their lights for 60 minutes.
One of the essential conditions in the fight against climate change is the existence of intact natural systems. However, over the past 50 years, nature, which is also the source of our livelihoods, has faced alarming and unprecedented rates of loss across the world. It is imperative to reverse this trend by 2030, rescuing and restoring biodiversity.
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