In Pictures: World goes dark for Earth Hour

By Editorial Team

Published 24th Mar 2018, 23:05 GMT

Updated 25th Mar 2018, 12:37 GMT

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

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

Earth Hour 2018 — Buckingham Palace in London… (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Earth Hour 2018 — Piccadilly Circus in London was also left in the dark (WWF/PA)

Earth Hour 2018 — …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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