BANGKOK, March 28 (TNA) – The Bangkok
Metropolitan Administration (BMA) invites Thai people to participate in the 60+
Earth Hour 2019 on Saturday in the biggest global environmental event to draw
attention to global warming.
After joining this global
campaign with other cities across the world for 12 years, the BMA this year
draws 262 organisations to turn off lights on March 30 to mark Earth Hour 2019.
Deputy city clerk of Bangkok
Wiparat Chaiyanukij said in a public campaign on Thursday that during the Earth
Hour lights at major landmarks in the capital city such as the Temple of the
Emerald Buddha, the Grand Palace and the Rama VIII Bridge would be turned off.
In the campaign at the Victory
Monument, the activists and the BMA officials urged people to join the global
anti-global warming efforts to switch off unnecessary lights as well as cut
back on plastic use.
Ms Wiparat said the BMA first
joined the Earth Hour in 2007 and saved Bt64.78 million worth of electricity.
This year, the BMA invited Thai
people not only in Bangkok to join over 500 public and government agencies in
Thailand and some 7,000 cities in 188 countries in this environment
conservation campaign. (TNA)
