Earth Hour 2018: Major landmarks around the world switch off the lights in call for action on climate change

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Martin Coulter24 March 2018

British households and major landmarks alike switched off their lights for 60 minutes to mark Earth Hour on Saturday night.

Countries around the world have switching off the lights for Earth Hour, a global call for international unity on the importance of climate change.

Since beginning in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour has spread to more than 180 countries, with tens of millions of people joining in.

In London famous sites such as Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Downing Street, the London Eye and Buckingham Palace all fell into darkness.

Sidney went dark for 60 minutes
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Theresa May showed her support for the movement, tweeting via the @10DowningStreet Twitter account: "Downing Street switches off its lights in support of [Earth Hour]".

The London Assembly tweeted: "It's time to [connect the Earth]. Each and every Londoner has the power to make a change."

Lights out at the Colosseum in Rome
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Meanwhile in Paris, the Eiffel Tower went dark, while in Jordan, the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature arranged 11,440 candles on a hilltop in the capital of Amman, establishing a Guinness World Record for the largest candle mosaic.

The scene was repeated over and over across the world: at Sydney's Opera House; at Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers; at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland; at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and at St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.

Additional reporting by the Press Association

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