Vietnam: Over 910 million VND saved during Earth Hour
	Earth Hour campaign 2018 to kick start on March 3
	Major cities of Vietnam switched off for Earth Hour 2017

Many residential buildings in Ha Noi turned off unnecessary electric equipment in response to Earth Hour. (Photo source: Thanh Tung)

The campaign took place amid the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam and other countries worldwide.

Vietnam Electricity and its member companies nationwide encouraged organisations, offices and customers to switch off unnecessary electrical devices during Earth Hour.

The event, launched by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Vietnam and the Ministry of Industry and Trade, received a warm response from people across all 63 cities and provinces.

The main activities included a social media campaign from March 12 to 28 calling for commitments to save electricity on the WWF website and reviewing the campaign from March 28 to April 4.

This year’s event focused on the theme “loss of biopersity” to raise public awareness of the depletion of natural resources and change of habitats on Earth, causing widespread biopersity losses.

It called on organisations and inpiduals to take action to save energy, limit the use of plastics and say no to wildlife consumption, as well as join hands with the international community to realise goals to cope with climate change and protect the green planet.

Earth Hour – an initiative of the World Wide Fund for Nature - is the largest social event in the world, and was observed in 7,000 cities and towns across 172 countries and territories.

Vietnam first joined the drive in 2009. Last year, the country saved 492,000kWh of electricity, equivalent to VND917 million ($39,400).

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