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In Pictures: World goes dark for Earth Hour

In London, a kaleidoscope of famous sites switched off their lights, including Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus and the London Eye.

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People gather at Amman Citadel to light candles that form the Earth Hour logo (Raad Adayleh/AP)

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

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Buckingham Palace in London… (Jonathan Brady/PA)
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Piccadilly Circus in London was also left in the dark (WWF/PA)
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…and after it switched off its lights (WWF/PA)
Jordan Earth Hour
The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature arranged 11,440 candles on a hilltop in the capital of Amman (Raad Adayleh/AP)
Hungary Earth Hour
The Millennium Monument, a landmark of the Hungarian capital with its illumination switched on prior to the Earth Hour event… (Tamas Kovacs/MTI via AP)
India Earth Hour
The landmark India Gate monument is seen lit, top, and then in darkness after the lights were turned off for one hour (Oinam Anand/AP)
Philippines Earth Hour
The globe landmark of the Philippines’s largest shopping mall, the Mall of Asia, turns dark for Earth Hour (Bullit Marquez/AP)
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