Earth Hour 2024 – in pictures

24 Mar 2024

The Guardian

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Major landmarks, businesses and households in cities around the world turned their lights off for one hour at 8.30pm local time on Saturday 23 March to raise awareness of the climate crisis and show support for renewable energy

Buckingham Palace is shown with lights switched on and off during Earth Hour in London

Photograph: Hollie Adams/Reuters
The Royal Liver Building is illuminated in green immediately before turning off its lights to mark Earth Hour in Liverpool

Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA
The Eiffel Tower in Paris

Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images
The Colosseum before and after the lights were switched off for Earth Hour in Rome

Photograph: Remo Casilli/Reuters
The ancient Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis hill before and after the lights were switched off in Athens

Photograph: Louiza Vradi/Reuters
The St Alexander Nevsky cathedral before, during and after turning off of the lights for Earth Hour in Sofia, Bulgaria

Photograph: Stoyan Nenov/Reuters
The Azadi (Freedom) tower before and after its lights are switched off during Earth Hour in Tehran, Iran

Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA
A view of the Sudirman central business district with its lights switched off during Earth Hour, in Jakarta, Indonesia

Photograph: Bagus Indahono/EPA
The Phoenix Centre in Beijing, China. Earth Hour is a WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) campaign to encourage businesses, communities and individuals to take the simple steps needed to cut their emissions

Photograph: Jade Gao/AFP/Getty Images
Tokyo Tower illuminated and with lights turned off to mark Earth Hour in Japan

Photograph: Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP/Getty Images
Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Twin Tower and KL Tower with the lights switched on and switched off in Malaysia

Photograph: Fazry Ismail/EPA
This combination of pictures shows the landmark building Taipei 101 in Taiwan taking part in Earth Hour

Photograph: I-Hwa Cheng/AFP/Getty Images
Sydney Opera House in Australia turns out its lights

Photograph: Nikki Short/Reuters
The Turtle Tower in Hanoi, Vietnam joins the worldwide event

Photograph: Luong Thai Linh/EPA
Namsan Tower before and after the lights were turned off in Seoul, South Korea

Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
A composite photo shows people standing on the bridge against Shanghai Pearl Tower and skyline before and after lights went out for one hour in Shanghai, China

Photograph: Alex Plavevski/EPA
The Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand goes dark

Photograph: Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, a Unesco World Heritage Site, in Mumbai, India

Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images
The Prambanan Temple – one of the largest Hindu temples in Southeast Asia and a Unesco World Heritage Site in Yogyakarta, Indonesia – in darkness, and illuminated once more

Photograph: Devi Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
The Telangana State Secretariat building in Hyderabad, India during and after Earth Hour

Photograph: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images
The Wisma Atria shopping mall in Singapore during and at the end of Earth Hour

Photograph: How Hwee Young/EPA