In Lyon, at night.

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  • On March 27, the public buildings of the city of Lyon will be turned off from 8:30 p.m. and for the whole night.

  • A symbolic gesture in which residents are invited to participate by plunging their homes into darkness for a while on Saturday evening.

  • "We want to fight against light pollution, which is detrimental to our sleep and to nocturnal fauna", specifies Sylvain Godinot, deputy delegate for ecological transition and heritage.

To protect the environment, everyone can take concrete action through simple actions.

It is to remind the general public of this message that on March 27, on the occasion of the worldwide operation "Earth Hour" (one hour for the planet), organized for fifteen years by WWF, the public buildings of the city de Lyon will be off from 8:30 p.m. and for the whole night, announced the town hall headed by environmentalist Grégory Doucet.

With the exception of the Fourvière basilica, which will remain illuminated, all lighting carried out since 1989 as part of the City's Light plan will be stopped, “ie 370 sites” distributed throughout the city, specifies the central town hall.

A symbolic gesture in which residents are invited to participate by plunging their homes into darkness for a while on Saturday evening, as several million people do every year around the world.

An edition dedicated to forests

This fifteenth edition is dedicated to the world's forests which "shelter 80% of the world's biodiversity but are disappearing at an alarming rate", underlines the town hall of Lyon.

“The priority to energy sobriety will be included this year in our Climate Air Energy action plan, with an unprecedented level of ambition, specifies in a press release Sylvain Godinot, deputy delegate for ecological transition and heritage.

But above all, we want to raise awareness and challenge, so that the fight against climate change becomes a real priority at all levels.

We also want to fight against light pollution, which is detrimental to our sleep and to nocturnal fauna, ”adds the elected official.

To this end, the elected official is working in particular, in conjunction with the services of the metropolis of Lyon, to create a black grid (corridors that are turned off at night), to preserve biodiversity.

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