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The United Nations is joining in Earth Hour
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging people everywhere to join the United Nations and millions of citizens around the world in "Earth Hour".
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On the 28th of March at 8:30 in the evening, local time, people in more than 1,000 cities will turn off their non-essential lights for one hour.
"It promises to be the largest demonstration of public concern about climate change ever attempted. People will be telling their representatives to seal a deal in Copenhagen, a deal at the climate change talks that will protect the people and the planet."
The UN will turn off the lights at its Headquarters in New York to observe "Earth Hour," which was launched two years ago in Australia by the World Wildlife Fund. This year the day falls just before the first round of UN negotiations on a new climate change agreement in Bonn, Germany. The talks will be the first of three sessions leading up to the Copenhagen talks in December.
For UN Radio, I'm Bissera Kostova.
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