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The Montreal Protocol

"The first international environmental protection agreement to limit destructive atmospheric emissions...

The Montreal Protocol ... a successful, cooperative model for climate negotiations" -- Steven Schmidt, GreenPolicy360

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Montreal Protocol (2021 Update)

The Montreal Protocol protects the terrestrial carbon sink

Published August 18, 2021

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03737-3

The control of the production of ozone-depleting substances through the Montreal Protocol means that the stratospheric ozone layer is recovering1 and that consequent increases in harmful surface ultraviolet radiation are being avoided. The Montreal Protocol has co-benefits for climate change mitigation, because ozone-depleting substances are potent greenhouse gases....

View the Nature PDF Research Study (2021)

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The Montreal Protocol ... a model for climate negotiations

• https://theconversation.com/repairing-ozone-layer-is-also-reducing-co-in-the-atmosphere-new-study-166216

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(2016)

According to MIT news, the ozone hole above Antarctica has shrunk by 4 million square kilometers since 2000, when ozone depletion was at its peak. The findings have also been confirmed by other scientists and published in the journal Science.

• https://news.mit.edu/2016/signs-healing-antarctic-ozone-layer-0630

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