Fight against Climate Change
L to R: Corals become bleached when water temperatures rise too high and are sustained for too long. Fiji; Russian Arctic; Mountain pine beetle infestation in northern British Columbia, Canada.; A river of melt-water running down the slope of a toe of the Athabasca Glacier, Canada.; Drought in Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia.
Earth Hour
Earth Hour is a global campaign to encourage individuals, businesses and governments to protect and take positive actions for the environment.
From its inception as a single-city initiative in 2007, Earth Hour has gown into a worldwide sustainability movement where hundreds of millions of people from every continent come together to acknowledge the importance of protecting our planet and celebrating that commitment.
In 2012, we ask you to go beyond the hour and embrace sustainable change, not just for one hour once a year, but as a long term action.
This year’s programme expects to motivate even more individuals and organisations to do their part for the environment with an extraordinary and inspiring campaign based on a friendly and personable pledge - ‘I Will If You Will’.
WWF encourages everyone to challenge any individual, business or organisation to do their part in preserving natural resources and protecting the environment, beyond a standard 60 minutes practice of switching off the lights. In addition, WWF-Singapore is urging 3,000 Singaporeans, residents and individuals to sign up and be an Earth Hour Ambassador.
Taking centrestage at the official Earth Hour 2012 event will be a phenomenal human formation in the shape of ‘60+ SINGAPORE’ in which ‘60’ stands for the 60 minutes in an hour; while the '+' emphasises the importance of going beyond the single initiative of ‘switching off lights’ for just one hour.
All Earth Hour Ambassadors are expected to come together to form the ‘60+ SINGAPORE’ shape as a collective pledge to undertake sustainable actions in environmental protection in our daily lives.
To sign up, please click here.
From its inception as a single-city initiative in 2007, Earth Hour has gown into a worldwide sustainability movement where hundreds of millions of people from every continent come together to acknowledge the importance of protecting our planet and celebrating that commitment.
In 2012, we ask you to go beyond the hour and embrace sustainable change, not just for one hour once a year, but as a long term action.
This year’s programme expects to motivate even more individuals and organisations to do their part for the environment with an extraordinary and inspiring campaign based on a friendly and personable pledge - ‘I Will If You Will’.
WWF encourages everyone to challenge any individual, business or organisation to do their part in preserving natural resources and protecting the environment, beyond a standard 60 minutes practice of switching off the lights. In addition, WWF-Singapore is urging 3,000 Singaporeans, residents and individuals to sign up and be an Earth Hour Ambassador.
Taking centrestage at the official Earth Hour 2012 event will be a phenomenal human formation in the shape of ‘60+ SINGAPORE’ in which ‘60’ stands for the 60 minutes in an hour; while the '+' emphasises the importance of going beyond the single initiative of ‘switching off lights’ for just one hour.
All Earth Hour Ambassadors are expected to come together to form the ‘60+ SINGAPORE’ shape as a collective pledge to undertake sustainable actions in environmental protection in our daily lives.
To sign up, please click here.
Earth Hour 2012
Preventing a Global Temperature Rise
Floods, droughts, hotter summers or colder winters - climate change is causing unusual weather in many parts of the world. If we are to avoid catastrophic climate change, we must ensure that the average increase in global temperature stays well below 2oC. To achieve this, global emissions of greenhouse gases must decrease by at least 80% (below 1990) levels by 2050.
WWF is working with governments and industries to improve energy efficiency and reduce global energy consumption by half through the use of renewable energies.
WWF is working with governments and industries to improve energy efficiency and reduce global energy consumption by half through the use of renewable energies.