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The City Council of Caravaca adds this Saturday, March 25, to the initiative against climate change 'The Hour of the Planet', with the shutdown of the lighting of the Castle and the Templete or Bañadero de la Vera Cruz, as monuments and spaces representative of The city, in a year in which it acquires even more symbolism for celebrating the Jubilee Year 2017.
The Councilor for the Environment, Enrique Fuentes, has encouraged citizens to collaborate in a particular way with this global campaign, which this year is convened with the slogan 'The Planet First.
Nobody stop you ', turning off the lights of their homes from 20.30 to 21.30 hours.
Earth Hour is a global WWF campaign that began in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, with the symbolic gesture of turning off the light for an hour as a sample of the fight against climate change.
Ten years later, it has become the largest global initiative in defense of the environment and a call to mobilize and act constructively in defense of our threatened Planet.
Climate change is already evident, especially in regions such as the Arctic.
But at the same time there are reasons for optimism, on 4 November 2016 entered into force the Paris Agreement to curb climate change.
This global agreement marks a turning point and the beginning of a major global transition towards clean, low-carbon development and economy.
Every year, cities around the world show their support for the campaign by turning off the lights of its major monuments and buildings.
The Aqueduct of Segovia, the Tower of Hercules in La Coruña, the Mosque of Cordoba, the Cibeles Fountain in Madrid, among many other world-wide venues, become a grand stage of celebration and homage to the Planet.
But this gesture encompasses much more, and is only the symbol of a constant effort to build a sustainable future.
More and more municipalities join in initiatives to defend the environment and adopt measures to reduce emissions with the implementation of projects and programs that promote energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable mobility.
That's the real time that counts.
That added to 'all the hours of effort' turn the city councils into real vectors of change and overcoming of obsolete energy models based on fossil fuels.
And that they will help to fulfill the Paris Agreement of fight against the climatic change.
More than 7,000 cities around the world have joined Earth Hour.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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