The Junior College will be once again joining over 190 countries and territories around the globe to celebrate Earth Hour. The 60 + event is a worldwide grassroots movement with individuals from around the globe switching off their lights to show symbolic support for the planet and to raise awareness of the environmental issues affecting it.
With the 2030 goal in mind, we too must step things up. So this year, the Junior College is joining the Ministry for Environment, Energy and Enterprise (MEEE) in breathing new life into Earth Hour. The main aim for this year is to make this the #BiggestHourForEarth. How? By calling on supporters of this cause across the globe to switch off their lights and give an hour for Earth, spending 60 minutes doing something positive for our planet.
It is an annual global event organized by WWF (World Wild Fund for Nature) encouraging individuals, communities, corporates, and households to turn off their lights to show support for the fight against climate change and a commitment towards a better planet.
Over the years, the lights-off moment saw entire streets, administrative buildings, monuments, and other public areas go dark in different parts of the world, including Malta and Gozo, in an effort to draw public attention to nature loss and the climate crisis. This year – amidst the current global circumstances – we would like to encourage you to create the same unmissable sight so that the world sees our planet, the issues we face, and our place within it, in a new light.
Please join the Junior College and MEEE to celebrate Earth Hour 60+ on Saturday 25 March 2023 between 20.30 and 21.30 to possibly make arrangements to switch off (as appropriate) the external lights of selected buildings under your responsibility during the designated hour.
The MEEE would also like to encourage you to further participate during this hour by visiting the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/earthhourmalta where various green ideas will be shared relating to what can be done during the hour of switch-off along with what daily sustainable actions can be taken beyond the hour.
It would be appreciated if you could send photos/videos with respect to the switch-off in order to showcase what Malta and Gozo have done as part of this worldwide initiative. Any photos/videos are to be sent to: rosealie.muscat@gov.mt