Earth Hour 2018, which has ‘Connect to Earth’ as its theme, will run between 8.30pm and 9.30pm (local time) on Saturday, 24 March.

A bicycle parade in response to Earth Hour last year

In response to the worldwide Earth Hour, families, businesses and organisations in Da Nang are being encouraged to turn off lights and non-essential electrical equipment, and do whatever else they can, to reduce their electricity consumption during that hour. 

The Da Nang Power Company’s employees are displaying a large number of eye-catching posters and banners about Earth Hour 2018 on local streets in an attempt to encourage the general public to save electricity.

Furthermore, there will be a bicycle parade supporting Earth Hour this year, travelling through major streets, in a bid to convey the meaningful message of energy saving.

In a similar vein, a number of public lights, especially decorative ones, along local streets will be turned off to reduce electricity consumption, but still ensuring a good visibility for road-users in that evening.

Earth Hour 2018 marks 10 years since the lights-off event first started in Viet Nam in 2009.

Launched by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Earth Hour has since become the world’s biggest grassroots environmental movement where landmarks and communities switch off their lights simultaneously at 8.30pm local time. 

Earth Hour was started as a lights-off event in Sydney, Australia in 2007. Since then it has grown to engage a total of more than 180 countries and territories worldwide, according to its official website.