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Bangladesh to observe Earth Hour
Thursday March 29, 2012 10:00:44 PM,
IANS
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Dhaka: The Bangladeshi government
has decided to observe Earth Hour 2012 and it will urge the people
not to use power during that time, an official said Thursday.
"We've decided to observe Earth Hour and ask the people not to use
power during that hour," Xinhua quoted Towfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury,
Bangladeshi prime minister's energy advisor as saying at a press
briefing.
Earth Hour 2012 will be held March 31, 2012 from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30
p.m. at the participating country's local time.
The Bangladesh government could save about 400 tonnes of liquid
fuel and 1.6 million units of electricity if all people in the
country observe Earth Hour, said the country's Power Development
Board Chairman ASM Alamgir.
The country's Power Secretary Abul Kalam Azad said they have
started to campaign for it and hope that it would be observed
across Bangladesh.
Earth Hour is a worldwide event that is organised by the World
Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and is held on the last Saturday of
March annually, encouraging households and businesses to turn off
their non-essential lights for one hour to raise awareness about
the need to take action on climate change.
The concept of Earth Hour was conceived by the World Wide Fund (WWF)
for Nature and the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million
residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential
lights.
Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world
adopted the event in 2008.
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