Canon Group Companies Support the ‘Earth Hour’ Light Off Campaign for 12 Consecutive years

Canon Group Companies Support the ‘Earth Hour’ Light Off Campaign for 12 Consecutive years - Canon HongKong

28 Mar 2020

Canon Group Companies Support the ‘Earth Hour’
Light Off Campaign for 12 Consecutive years

Canon group companies including Canon Hongkong Company Limited (Canon HK) fully support the largest annual global environmental campaign “Earth Hour” organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature, by turning off all non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour from 8:30p.m. – 9:30p.m.on 28 March (Saturday), showing our commitment to reduce energy consumption for a sustainable future.

Canon HK believes that small actions can make a big difference. We encourage our staff to support Earth Hour in different ways for 12 consecutive years, turning off all non-essential lights, with people from 190 countries and territories, thousands of landmarks turned off their lights in solidarity for our planet, over 3.1 billion impressions of #EARTHHOUR, #CONNECT2EARTH and related hashtags were generated to show their concerns.

Canon HK encourages our staff to support Earth Hour in different ways for 12 consecutive years.

President & CEO of Canon HK, Mr. Shunichi Morinaga (4th from left in first row) together with staff, pledged to support ‘Earth Hour’, and take action to be a real green organization.

Canon HK turned off all non-essential lights and electrical appliances during the campaign period, to show our support to ‘Earth Hour’.

Promotional messages were also posted in Facebook and LinkedIN pages of Canon HK, to encourage more people to join this meaningful light off campaign.

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