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Scientists discover unforeseen benefits of Montreal Protocol
2013-08-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The global agreement that saved the ozone layer may have also prevented dangerous climate change. In 1987, when almost 200 countries signed the treaty committing them to phasing out the chemicals that were causing rapid destruction of the ozone layer, no one could have foreseen the extent of the environmental destruction they were preventing. The Montreal Protocol was the result of a rapid cooperation by world leaders once scientists linked chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to ozone loss over Antarctica....
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