Ecological specialists urge the citizens of Tatarstan to participate in the international campaign “Earth Hour”

This year, the largest in the world ecological campaign will be held on March 19th at 8:30 pm local time. The humanity’s ecological footprint will be the topic of the event. The campaign symbolizes solidarity of citizens of various countries in solution of issues regarding energy and resource saving, as well as improvement of ecological situation on the planetary scale. The website dedicated to the Earth Hour 2016 was launched presenting more detailed information on the campaign to participate in it. The official website of the campaign – 60.wwf.ru.

Heads of all the authorities, state authorities of the Republic of Tatarstan, companies and organizations, as well as population of the Republic were invited to join the campaign and switch off for one hour architectural and decorative highlighting of buildings, constructions, as well as illumination of residential facilities, and electrical devices that are not related to human life safety assurance, and to implement other measures aimed at decrease of energy consumption.

         Last year, in 2015, architectural and decorative highlighting of the Reserve Museum “Kazan Kremlin” in Kazan was switched off during the campaign along with lighting of buildings of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan and the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Big Concert Hall named after Salikh Saydashev, and the IT-park. Kazan Town Hall also joined the campaign having switched off illumination of buildings of district administrations and Kazan City Hall. Moreover, the campaign was also joined by sports and large hotel and entertainment complexes “Korston” and “Grand Hotel Kazan”. Population of all municipal formations and more than 500 companies, organizations, ministries, authorities, and establishments of the Republic participated in the campaign. As a result of the “Earth Hour” campaign, saved energy amounted to 135 MWt.

Press Service of the Ministry