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Detailed explanation-1: -#EarthHour, #Connect2Earth and related hashtags trended in 26 countries as people across the globe generated over 2 billion impressions to show their concern for nature. People pledged their support for the planet, challenging world leaders to push the issue up the global agenda.

Detailed explanation-2: -WWF’s Earth Hour is the world’s biggest movement to protect our planet. Every year hundreds of millions of people around the world in more than 7,000 cities in over 190 countries take part by switching off for 60 minutes as a symbolic gesture of solidarity to show they care about our planet’s future.

Detailed explanation-3: -Earth Hour 2019 theme is “Reduce, Reuse, Change the Way We Live”. Earth Hour is the only movement in the support of earth in which the major landmarks of the world from Eiffel tower to Sydney Opera House and from Golden Gate to Birmingham Palace go dark in support of Earth Hour.

Detailed explanation-4: -It has been 10 amazing years since Earth Hour began in 2007 as a small grassroots movement in Sydney, Australia. To celebrate, we look back on the global growth and achievements from the humble beginnings of what is now the world’s largest environmental campaign.

Detailed explanation-5: -New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: In its sixteenth year of origin, Earth Hour, an hour long practice of switching off all the lights worldwide to unite people for the planet, called upon people worldwide to stand together to ‘shape our future’.