Nairobi dims lights for Earth Hour

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Nairobi dims lights for Earth Hour

STORY: Nairobi dims lights for Earth Hour DATELINE: March 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:02 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of a hotel in Nairobi 2. various of the switch off STORYLINE: Kenyan capital city Nairobi on Saturday turned off its lights of several landmarks on the occasion of the global Earth Hour event to bring broader public attention to the climate change issue. Earth Hour is an annual public campaign organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The event started in Sydney, Australia, in 2007. It's marked on the last Saturday of March every year, encouraging institutions, communities, businesses and individuals to turn off non-essential electric lights for an hour. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Nairobi. (XHTV)

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