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25 March 2017, 13:41

Belarus to join Earth Hour action today

MINSK, 25 March (BelTA) – The Earth Hour action is expected to take place worldwide on 25 March, BelTA has learned.

This year's event will be held using the motto “Change yourself, not the planet” and will focus on promoting a responsible attitude to the environment. The Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry encourages Belarusians to take part in the action and turn off lights for one hour from 20:30 till 21:30 on 25 March.

Illumination along Minsk's key avenues will be turned off from 20:30 till 21:30. External lights will be turned off in Minsk's Nezavisimosti Avenue, Pobeditelei Avenue, Partizansky Avenue, and Pritytskogo Avenue. Lights of the National Library of Belarus, external lights of shopping centers, universities and cafes, specimens of architecture will go out for one hour.

Belarus is an active participant of the Earth Hour action. In 2016 the action took place in Minsk, Vitebsk, Grodno, Gomel, Brest, Baranovichi, Pinsk, Braslav, and Chausy. In addition to turned-off lights the year 2016 action in Belarus featured concerts, lectures, a cycling race, and shadow play shows.

The Earth Hour action is an annual worldwide event organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The action is arranged on the last Saturday of March. Participants of the action are encouraged to turn off lights and other non-essential electrical appliances (except for lifts) for one hour in order to stimulate interest in the climate change problem and the energy unity of the mankind.

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