Whatever happened to the ozone hole?

A story of how we saved the planet, and how we need to do it again

Glossary: green finance, Montreal Protocol, ozone depletion, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, Kyoto Protocol, Conference of Parties (COP), Paris Agreement, European Green Deal, climate neutrality, carbon offsetting, climate change, carbon trading, carbon pricing

Sources:

Defining "green" in the context of green finance, European Commission, 2017

European Green Deal, European Commission, 2019

Stratospheric Sink for Chlorofluoromethanes: Chlorine Atom-Catalysed Destruction of Ozone. Mario Molina and FS Rowland, Nature, 1974

The World Solved the Ozone Problem. It Can Solve Climate Change. The Editorial Board, New York Times, 2019

Has the Kyoto protocol made any difference to carbon emissions? Duncan Clark, The Guardian, 2012

climate.nasa.gov, NASA (Goddard Institute for Space Studies)

unep.org, Unite Nations Environment Programme

wikipedia.org

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