Hong Kong — Pizza Hut in Hong Kong has launched its latest campaign in support of Earth Hour 2022. The campaign seeks to connect Pizzahut with its fans on topics close to their hearts – this time with its ‘Join The Dark Side’ promotion. The campaign was done with advertising company Ogilvy.

Earth hour is a worldwide movement organized by the World Wildlife Fund. To mark this year’s event, the brand went ‘dark’ on its Hong Kong social media feeds on March 26, displaying a black logo and posting ‘blackout’ content.

To further support the World Wide Fund for Nature’s initiative, Pizza Hut also released limited edition candle ‘pizza savers’ on a first-come-first-served basis at stores across the territory. Starting at 6 pm on March 26, kits were given away to customers with any takeaway purchase. Fans were also encouraged to share their ‘dark side’ moments as they enjoyed a candlelit slice, to further increase awareness of Earth Hour.

Wendy Leung, marketing director at Pizza Hut Hong Kong, shared her thoughts on the campaign, saying “Environmental responsibility is important to all of us at Pizza Hut and the opportunity to support Earth Hour and raise awareness of climate change really aligns with our values as a brand.”

Simultaneously, Amy Cheng, associate creative director at Ogilvy Hong Kong, commented, “We want people to feel good about the contribution without compromising, so we make the hour in the dark enjoyable for Pizza Hut fans.”

Hong Kong — Insurance provider AXA in Hong Kong and Macau has announced their partnership with WWF-Hong Kong to support Earth Hour 2022 as the sole activation partner, the highest level of sponsor, in Hong Kong. AXA will join forces with millions of people around the globe in an effort to support a greener Earth, and tackle the issue of climate change and the loss of biodiversity.

AXA will echo this year’s Earth Hour theme of ‘Habits Protect Habitats’ with a series of education and promotion activities beyond Earth Hour. These include online green challenge for families, educational webinars, school programmes on biodiversity through board games, eco-guided tours, volunteering in wetlands among others, to encourage their staff, financial consultants, customers and the community to take actions to protect nature, with a focus on wetlands which provide essential ecosystem services to wildlife and human beings by being nature-based solutions to environmental issues.

AXA will also be launching promotions over different channels to encourage individuals, schools, and corporates in Hong Kong to pledge to build habits on protecting natural habitats.

Sally Wan, chief executive officer of AXA Greater China, said that at AXA, their purpose is to act for human progress by protecting what matters. Wan added that AXA Group has been at the forefront of the fight against climate change. She continued by saying that in 2020, AXA announced sustaining its strong climate leadership as one of the five key strategic pillars.

“As one of the global insurance leaders, AXA hopes our support as activation partner and the highest level of the corporate sponsor will help maximise the impact of Earth Hour, the world’s biggest environment protection movement. We encourage all members of the public to make a pledge to set nature on the path to recovery and create a healthier, more sustainable and resilient world for our next generations together,” Wan said.

The one-hour lights-off event for Earth Hour will start at 8:30 on the evening of March 26 2022, preceded by an online count-down ceremony.