Muscat: The Sultanate of Oman joined countries around the world in celebrating Earth Hour, which takes place on March 22 of each year, under the slogan 'Together towards the biggest hour for Earth."
This initiative was launched as part of efforts to raise environmental awareness, confront the challenges of global warming and climate change, and encourage individuals, communities, and institutions to practice environmental sustainability and rationalize energy and electricity consumption.
Since 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.
With the threat of breaching by 2030, the 1.5°C global temperature increase limit set by the Paris Climate Agreement, nature - the source of our very livelihoods and one of our biggest allies against the climate crisis - is also under severe stress, facing alarming and unprecedented rates of loss globally.
The next few years are therefore crucial to stay under the 1.5°C climate threshold to avoid irreversible damage to the planet and the need to reverse nature loss by 2030, ending the decade with more nature than we started, not less. To
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