Mon 05 January 2009 | 5:09 p.m.
Earth Hour @ Youth 09!
Earth Hour will be at the Youth 09 at PWTC this weekend. Malaysia's Largest YouthLifestyle Festival is back! Bringing 50, 000 youths over 100 activities in 1 event! This event is taking place at:When : 9th-11th January 2009
Time : 10:30am - 9:30pm
Where : Putra World Trade Centre, KL
During the event, the Earth Hour team will be there to answer your questions about Earth Hour and this is a great opportunity for you to sign up and pledge your support towards the global event that is taking place in Malaysia for the first time!!
The WWF-Malaysia/Earth Hour booth is opposite Petronas and Celcom (the bottom most area near the main entrance) Booth number 9, Tun Razak Hall 1
Make sure to pay us a visit and join us at Youth 09 this weekend!
If you have questions contact us at : araj@wwf.org.my
Tue 23 December 2008 | 3:30 p.m.
Donate Towards Earth Hour
WWF Malaysia together with its partners are planning Earth Hour 2009 which Malaysia will be participating in for the first time. We are in the midst of talking to government bodies, state governments, landmark buildings,media partners and looking for sponsors to fund various parts of the event.You can contribute to WWF-Malaysia to help us organizing by donating via the WWF-Malaysia website.
Head over to our appeal page or click the image above to be taken to the page and help us make Earth Hour a resounding success!
There are various ways of sponsoring Earth Hour:
- Collateral - T-Shirts,Stickers, etc.
- Event Sponsorship - Event Day
- Web space
- Road-shows
- mobilise business and government to "switch off" for Earth Hour and power down to reduce emissions
- help reach people across the country with national and local advertisements about reducing their carbon footprints
2009 is a key year for decisions on climate change. World leaders will meet in Copenhagen in December 2009 to commit to emission reduction targets (to replace the Kyoto Protocol which comes to an end in 2012).
The people of Malaysia need to be heard. Show you care about our planet.
Or if you feel there are ways that your company can help, please contact us at araj@wwf.org.my
Thank You!
Wed 10 December 2008 | 10:59 a.m.
Earth Hour Launched! [Press Release]
PRIME MINISTER ENDORSES GLOBAL EFFORT:
WWF’S EARTH HOUR
WWF’S EARTH HOUR
Kuala Lumpur, 10th December 2008: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi indicated his support and endorsement of Malaysia’s participation in Earth Hour 2009. To date, 74 cities in 62 countries have committed to switch off for WWF’s Earth Hour in 2009. WWF-Malaysia is currently discussing the potential participation of Malaysian cities in Earth Hour 2009 with relevant authorities. The campaign, which hopes to reach out to more than one billion people in 1,000 cities around the world, asks individuals, businesses and governments to switch off lights for just one hour on Saturday, 28th March 2009 at 8:30pm to create a platform of support for action on climate change.
Earth Hour aims to demonstrate unprecedented solidarity and provide a visual global mandate that will put the heat on world leaders meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009 to strike a new global deal on climate change.
The lights out initiative, which began in Sydney in 2007 as a public awareness raising campaign, has grown significantly over the past two years and now has 74 cities ready to flick the switch in 2009. Cities already committed include Los Angeles, Las Vegas, London, Hong Kong, Sydney, Rome, Manila, Oslo, Cape Town, Warsaw, Lisbon, Singapore, Istanbul, Mexico City, Toronto, Dubai and Copenhagen.
Some of the international icons which will go dark for an hour in solidarity include the world’s tallest hotel tower (the Burj Dubaiin Dubai), the tallest towers in the Americas (the CN tower in Toronto) and the southern hemisphere (the Sky Tower in Auckland) and Moscow’s Federation Tower. Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf has confirmed his support for Earth Hour while Quirinale - the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano – will also turn its lights off. Other landmarks which plan to merge into the night sky include the normally floodlit Table Mountain over Cape Town, South Africa and the Sydney Opera House.
Director General of WWF International Jim Leape said, “When leaders gather in Copenhagen in December 2009 to negotiate a new deal on climate they must feel that the eyes of the world are upon them. Earth Hour provides an opportunity for the public to send a powerful signal that they are watching and expect action.”
Executive Director of Earth Hour Global, Mr Andy Ridley said 2009 was the planet’s ‘destiny year’, with critical decisions needed to be made at the Copenhagen meeting on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, “2009 is the year we decide the future of the earth. It is the year the world finally agrees on a plan to massively reduce carbon emissions across the globe. This is the time to invest in new ways of doing business in a new low carbon economy. We must all step over the line together. The sum of our actions today can change history and secure the future of our planet.”
The extensive WWF conservation network also has more than 30 teams working in countries such as Malaysia, Brazil, Greece, India, Peru, Spain, Switzerland and France, ready to support a local Earth Hour roll out.
If you would like to pledge your support of Earth Hour log on to www.earthhour.org and sign up. If your company would like to participate in Earth Hour, please call WWF-Malaysia at tel: 78033772 or e-mail: ARaj@wwf.org.my. WWF-Malaysia sincerely thanks our Earth Hour partner, Leo Burnett Malaysia, for their generous support.
Fri 05 December 2008 | 3:25 p.m.
Prime Minister Supports Earth Hour
We are pleased to announce that we just received confirmation that our Prime Minister, The Honourable Dato' Seri Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi agrees to endorse and support Earth Hour Malaysia.
Follow Earth Hour Malaysia On Twitter!
Earth Hour Malaysia is now on twitter!! Follow the latest updates via twitter! Earth Hour Malaysia On Facebook
Earth Hour Malaysia is now on facebook! Don't forget to add us on facebook and drop us a note on comments,suggestions or just to say hi!!
Where it Began
2009 will be the first time Malaysia officially takes part in Earth Hour. There has been numerous questions about what Earth Hour is? Most Malaysians are not very aware what Earth Hour is and why we are part of this. This posting is to give you a background of Earth Hour and a simple video to give you a bit of a visual of the past Earth Hour's.
The answer: Ask the people of Sydney to turn off their lights for one hour.
On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2,100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour. If the greenhouse reduction achieved in the Sydney CBD during Earth Hour was sustained for a year, it would be equivalent to taking 48,616 cars off the road for a year.
With Sydney icons like the Harbour Bridge and Opera House turning their lights off, and unique events such as weddings by candlelight, the world took notice. Inspired by the collective effort of millions of Sydneysiders, many major global cities joined Earth Hour in 2008, turning a symbolic event into a global movement
Earth Hour 2009 YouTube Channel
Earth Hour Malaysia Youtube channel has is now live!! You can check out video's from around the world as well as local video's that will be posted as they come out! Subscribe to Earth Hour Malaysia's Youtube Channel and you will receive notification of updates!Earth Hour Partners
Earth Hour is only possible with the help and kind support of everyone. Since we have started planning Malaysia inaugural Earth Hour. Its no easy task but many kind parties have come forward to support this global causeBelow are some of our partners that have come on board! If you are interested to come on board to assist us within your own capacity, contact us at : araj@wwf.org.my
National Partners
Media Partners
taken from : http://www.earthhour.org/malaysia
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