UNISONScotland visitors will notice today that we "turned the lights out" on the UNISONScotland homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of WWF’s Earth Hour 2012.

Ok, it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display but it will draw attention to WWF’s Earth Hour - an inspiring message of hope and action – and a global demonstration about climate change.

On Saturday, March 31, 2012, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:30pm to 9:30pm in their local time zone (we've started a earlier to remind people of the event and we'll return to the usual page a little later).

WWF’s Earth Hour 2012 aims to unite the world’s people to demonstrate their concern about climate change.

UNISON supports the Earth Hour campaign, and we have darkened our homepage today to help spread awareness of what we hope will be a highly successful global event. How green can you be?

The UK's carbon footprint is over 500 million tonnes of CO2 per year. Individuals account for 45% of this. Calculate your carbon footprint and find out how you can reduce it by turning off unused lights and other carbon-reducing actions.