‘Use Your Power’ to Stem Climate Change, Secretary-General Says in Video Message for Earth Hour

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for Earth Hour 2015, observed on 28 March:

On 28 March at 8:30 p.m., the United Nations will switch off its lights in support of Earth Hour.  We do this each year to call attention to the need for climate action now, and the brighter future that lies ahead if we act together.  Climate change is a people problem.  People cause climate change and people suffer from climate change.  People can also solve climate change.

This December, in Paris, the UN is bringing nations together to agree on a new universal and meaningful climate agreement.  It will be the culmination of a year of action on sustainable development.  By turning out the lights, we also highlight that more than a billion people lack access to electricity.  Their future well-being requires access to clean, affordable energy.

With lights being switched off around the world, WWF’s [World Wildlife Fund’s] Earth Hour shows what is possible when we unite in support of a cause.  No individual action is too small; no collective vision is too big.

This is the time to use your power.  Join the global movement to change climate change.  Join Earth Hour on 28 March at 8:30 p.m.  Together let’s make climate change history.