The Rio 2016 Olympic Games Organizing Committee participated in the “Earth Hour”, which on this Saturday, the 27th, mobilized thousands of people around the world in an alert against global warming. Between 8:30 and 9:30pm, the lighting at the headquarters of the Rio 2016 Committee, in Barra da Tijuca, was turned off and the website had a special version where the main page was left “ in the dark”. Rio de Janeiro was chosen as the symbolic city for the second Brazilian edition of the “Earth Hour”. The lighting of various monuments and key-spots around the city such as the Christ Redeemer, Copacabana Beach, Nossa Senhora da Penha church, The Sugar Loaf Mountain and The Brazilian Jockey Club, was switched off. The action was to stimulate the residents to also turn of the lights at home for one hour. Apart from Rio de Janeiro, 61 other Brazilian cities, including 20 capitals, participated in the event. “The Brazilians have been showing an ever growing ecological conscience. The concern with the environment is very present in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic project, and that is why the Rio 2016 Committee could not stay out of and initiative like the “Earth Hour”, said the Rio 2016 Committee president Carlos Arthur Nuzman.