Action on seven continents

“World Clock” from America to South America, supported by hundreds of countries; in 2007, more than two million people in Australia and 2,000 workplaces start to close their lights to an hour to fight climate change on 31 March 2007. In a short time such as three years, in 2010, the people of 128 countries for a more sustainable future of their companies and management, the World Clock turned into the largest environmental movement of history.

WWF’s fifth of this year, in over 128 countries all over the world, in more than 4,000 cities, millions of people walking to the campaign to show their commitment to the planet, tens of thousands of people from Turkey and over 250 institutions supported. The Bosphorus Bridge and Ankara Opera House, connecting Asia and Europe, among the symbols of the World Clock 2011. With its high value rate, it has become the most important cities in Turkey in the limits of the Istanbul and the Istanbul campaign.

The Secretary General of the United Nations in the Moments of Ban Ki-Moon, the World Clock 2011 campaign is a great hope light for our planet.. On 26 March Saturday, the flashing lights across the world created an inspiring visual effect to create solutions worldwide against all threats faced by our world, such as climate change, ecological footprint, biological diversity loss. [

26 March Saturday evening when the Bosphorus Bridge lights turn off, the WWF-Turkey General Manager Tolga Baştak “The lights covered to pay attention to climate change to this year, hit a different point in 2011: What can you do beyond an hour for the invitation of life on our planet? Now it’s time to ask this question often to ourselves. Printing on natural resources, in other words, our Ecological Footprint is over 50 percent of the biological capacity of our planet. We are all “ecological debt”. We will need 2,8 planets in two, 2050 in 2030. Our planet is becoming our “continuous home” that has been living on all, and surrounded by living on it is impossible. That’s why the planet has to live in the framework of the facilities push offers, to respect the limits of the single world, we must force these limits more,” he said.

] Tolga Baştak, who mentions that is only a start to close the lights to 60 minutes under the World Clock campaign, “We are able to reduce pressure on our world by using our resources more accessible with small changes in our shape. The total environmental problem of these steps out in their lives of each of us will be brought to the Tags. He said, for a healthy planet, all segments from international institutions, from individuals to companies, should always act together,” she said.

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