AT 8pm tonight (local time) across every continent on the planet individuals, businesses, governments and entire communities will come together for the largest action on global warming ever seen. People of different races, cultures, religions, and socio-demographic, will unite like never before in celebration and contemplation of the one thing every single person on planet has in common – the planet.

The British Embassy in Madrid is joining the climate change campaign "Put out the light switch on the planet," an initiative organised by The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), together with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) and more than 1,500 cities across the world. The objective of the initiative, simply called "Earth Hour", is to encourage over one billion people in more than 6,000 cities around the world to demonstrate their commitment to the environment.

To this end, the headquarters of the British Embassy and Consulate-General in Madrid will remain in darkness for between 20.30 and 21.30 on Saturday 27 March. We encourage the network of Consular offices, British diplomatic residencies in Spain and all staff, and British institutions and businesses in Spain to actively join this campaign and do the same in their own homes.

"Participating in Earth Hour is about recognising the impact that everyone, both at an individual and a corporate level, has on the planet,” said Environmental Attaché for the British Embassy, Matthew Desoutter. “It’s about emphasising the need to change our habits to minimise our energy consumption. We’re not saying ‘stop the machine’, but we are looking for new ways to be more sustainable in our activities. This requires planning and teamwork - using videoconferencing instead of the aircraft to communicate with other sites, encouraging recycling in all our offices - but it's a subject that excites people so we are getting very good results."

The world’s most iconic landmarks – Pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt, Beijing’s Forbidden City, Empire State Building, Buckhingham Palace, Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue, Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, the Eiffel Tower and many many more – will plunge into darkness reflecting the resolve of the communities they represent to be part of a global solution to the indiscriminate threat of climate change.

Earth Hour is set to be an historic moment on the climate landscape, a moment of unprecedented global unity that will show the world a resolution to the threat of global warming is possible through collective action.

At 8.30pm (local time) tonight, when Earth Hour’s wave of optimism for a better healthier planet comes lapping at your door, let it into your home, join the planet on the journey to a solution to global warming, switch off your lights, light a candle of hope and show the world what can be done.

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Spain prepares to switch off for Earth Hour
Saturday, 27 March 2010
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