Tweet
Aysor, Armenia
March 27 2010
Armenia to join the `Planet Hour' action
Today at the evening at 20:30 the citizens of the whole world are
encouraged to switch off the lights for 1 hour to show their support
to the straggle against the climate changes. The action that was
organized the central office of the UNO is called `The Planet Hour'.
As the Officer-in-Charge of UN Department of Public Information Armine
Halajyan informed to Aysor.am it is the second time already that
Armenia joins this action, which is aimed at our country having a
small contribution in the international activity.
The event for the first time launched in 2007, in the Sidney city of
Australia. More than 50 million people partook in this event in the
whole world on 2008. In 2009 partook around 1bn people from around
4000 countries in the world. This year the `Planet Hour' includes 6000
cities.
The Ministries of the RA Nature protection and Yerevan Municipality
will support this action and on the above mentioned hour the lights of
the city will go off.
March 27 2010
Armenia to join the `Planet Hour' action
Today at the evening at 20:30 the citizens of the whole world are
encouraged to switch off the lights for 1 hour to show their support
to the straggle against the climate changes. The action that was
organized the central office of the UNO is called `The Planet Hour'.
As the Officer-in-Charge of UN Department of Public Information Armine
Halajyan informed to Aysor.am it is the second time already that
Armenia joins this action, which is aimed at our country having a
small contribution in the international activity.
The event for the first time launched in 2007, in the Sidney city of
Australia. More than 50 million people partook in this event in the
whole world on 2008. In 2009 partook around 1bn people from around
4000 countries in the world. This year the `Planet Hour' includes 6000
cities.
The Ministries of the RA Nature protection and Yerevan Municipality
will support this action and on the above mentioned hour the lights of
the city will go off.