Earth Hour turns lights at 366 locations around the world against the warming of the earth – PrimaPress

(PRIMAPRESS) – ROME – Today were the Cook Islands after the Capitoline evening with Piero Angela to start turning off the lights in the city to raise awareness among governments towards a real strategy to combat global warming. And ‘an Earth Hour record, as reports the WWF, this event that has plagued many countries in the world with 366 places or monuments symbol that will be obscured, representing 178 countries. “Earth Hour is much more than a symbolic event – said the president of WWF Italy, Donatella Bianchi – is the largest global mobilization for the climate that our worldwide organization celebrates 10 years. Now all eyes are on the agreement of Paris not to exceed the limit of 1.5 ° degrees of global temperature increase and will need to make sure to do without. <"Fossil fuels p> The next April 22, in New York, at the UN building, will be signed the Paris agreement reached at COP21. And ‘The participation of most of the world leaders, who will intervene with public statements, and a high-level event on the implementation of the Agreement. That day, the WWF hopes that all countries will announce further efforts to make the CO2 reduction targets in line with the objective of 1.5 ° C: it will be recalled, already in Paris many scientific studies stressed how, with current reduction targets , the world is doomed to a temperature rise of around 3 ° C, well beyond the threshold of “manageability” of the impacts of climate change.

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