People across the World would today celebrate Earth Hour Today from 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM.  Organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature, earth hour is celebrated every year to create awareness about conservation of energy and climate change.
People will express their commitment to the planet by switching off their lights for one hour from 8.30 to 9.30 PM today. In Delhi, lights at Central Park and parts of Connaught Place will be switched off during this period.
The event, conceived by WWF and Leo Burnett, first took place in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney’s lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008.
Actress and co-founder of The Honest Company, Jessica Alba, is the Earth Hour 2013 global ambassador. Alba along with the other co-founders of eco-friendly family brand The Honest Company, Christopher Gavigan, Sean Kane and Brian Lee, are lending their support to the cause through a fun ‘I Will If You Will’ challenge, in line with the company’s focus on promoting health and sustainability.
In 2013, the world’s first Earth Hour Forest began in Uganda, as a first step to fight the 6000 hectares of deforestation that occur in the country every month. The WWF-Uganda team identified close to 2700 hectares of degraded land, and used the I Will If You Will concept to challenge businesses, government officials and individuals to fill it with at least 500,000 trees during the year. Standard Chartered Bank-Uganda pledged to help fill the forest with more than 250,000 trees.