Earth Hour is a global event created to symbolize that each one of us, working together, can make a difference on climate change.

It was started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia. participant turn off all non-essential lights for one hour to make their stand against climate change.

In 2008 in Earth Hour was held internationally. with 35 countries around the world participating as official flagship cities and over 400 cities also supporting. Earth Hour 2008 was celebrated on all seven continents.

In March 28 2009 8:30 pm hundreds of millions took a stand around the world:

• 4,100 cities, towns and municipalities cities, towns and municipalities went dark
• 100s of millions of adults participated
• 1,059 Major icons went dark including the Sphinx and Pyramids at Giza, Rome’s Coliseum, and the Eiffel Tower

Earth Hour 2010

• Reach over 1 billion people around the world in more than 5,000 cities
• Involve communities in over 6,000 cities towns and municipalities and engage mass audiences
• Provide a visual mandate and present a voice from the people to Global Governments to make real change
• Brunei proudly joined Earth Hour officially

Earth Hour 2011

• It was held on 26th March 2011, 8.30pm
• This year’s Earth Hour, we start to go beyond one hour, and beyond climate change. Earth Hour has encouraged participants to make ongoing changes ‘beyond the hour’ to reduce their impact on the environment on ongoing basis.
• We introduce a platform to capture what is being done, the change that is taking place in our world and to allow these actions to inspire more action.
• We introduce beyond the hour race as one of the way to show commitment to ongoing change.
• Almost all of the activities done in Brunei were an ideas provided by the public, because we believe that Earth Hour truly is by the people and to the people.
• In this, the 5th year of Earth Hour, a record 135 countries, 5,251 Cities, Towns and Municipalities switched off their lights.
• 1,788 Landmarks across the world that stood in darkness for the hour which include 4 landmarks from Brunei.

Earth Hour 2012

• It will be held on 31st March 2012, 8.30pm