CALLING ALL OMBLES!!
Join us in creating the Biggest Hour for Earth tomorrow on 25th March - switch off your lights and spend 60 minutes doing something positive for our planet!
Following the ambitious global agreement set out at the 15th United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP15) to protect and restore nature by 2030, we knew we had to step things up. So Earth Hour breathed new life into their brand, work, message, and mission - creating the Biggest Hour for Earth.
The aim is that anyone, anywhere can do anything positive for Earth during Earth Hour. No action is too big or too small! We want to make Earth Hour the Biggest Hour for Earth, so we’re asking the OMBLES create impactful posters to encourage participation and action for Earth Hour.
One Minute Brief of the Day:
Create posters encouraging people to "Give an Hour for Earth" & deliver the Biggest Hour for Earth yet on 25th March at 8:30pm with @EarthHour #EarthHour
Create posters encouraging people to "Give an Hour for Earth" to help #EarthHour deliver the Biggest Hour for Earth...
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @EarthHour with the hashtag #EarthHour.
Get as creative as you like and enter as many times as you wish. Remember your Twitter handle in the corner of your entries. Deadline 6pm GMT.
PRIZES:
1 winner will receive £250 cash and a tee from the Earth Hour shop.
2 runners-up will win a tee from the Earth Hour shop.
About the Biggest Hour for Earth
Since our beginnings in 2007, Earth Hour has been known for the “lights off” moment, with individuals from around the globe switching off their lights to show symbolic support for the planet and to raise awareness of the environmental issues affecting it.
More than 15 years later, we are now at a tipping point with our climate and nature crises, putting at risk the fate of our one home and all our futures. We are on course to breach by 2030 the 1.5°C global temperature increase limit set by the Paris Climate Agreement, and nature - the source of our very livelihoods and one of our biggest allies against the climate crisis - is also under severe threat, facing alarming and unprecedented rates of loss globally.
The next 7 years are therefore crucial to all our futures - we have to stay under the 1.5°C climate threshold to avoid irreversible damage to our planet, and we need to reverse nature loss by 2030, ending the decade with more nature and biodiversity than we started, not less. To make this happen, individuals, communities, businesses, and governments must all urgently step up their efforts to protect and restore our one home.
With this 2030 goal in mind, we too must step things up. So this year, we’re breathing new life into Earth Hour - our brand, our work, our message, and our mission - creating the Biggest Hour for Earth. How? By calling on our supporters across the globe to switch off their lights and give an hour for Earth, spending 60 minutes doing something - anything - positive for our planet.
With our presence in over 190 countries and territories, we can use the power of the people to turn a single Earth Hour into thousands and millions of hours of action and awareness, creating a domino effect of impact that continues well beyond the 60 minutes. Amidst our increasingly divided and polarized societies, the Biggest Hour for Earth becomes a precious moment of unity, reminding the world that our one shared home needs our help and that we all can - and must - play a part in protecting it.
Can an Hour change the world?
On 25th March 2023 at 8.30pm, as landmarks and homes across the world switch off their lights, we are asking you to spend 60 minutes doing something - anything - positive for our planet.
Just 60 minutes? Yes, just one hour. It may not seem like much, but the magic happens when you, and those like you in Asia and Africa, North and South America, Oceania and Europe - supporters in over 190 countries and territories - all give an hour for our one home, creating the Biggest Hour for Earth.
By doing so, this Hour can shine an unmissable global spotlight on nature loss and climate change, and the need to work together to secure a brighter future for people and the planet.
It could compel millions to act, and make millions more take notice.
It could unite cities, countries, continents, showing what we all have in common, and what we stand to lose.
It could remind us that time is precious - but that we are powerful - inspiring us to make all other hours count.
