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Mar 12, 2007
Montreal Protocol helps climate as well as ozone layer
The 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer has so far provided more climate protection than the 1997 Kyoto Protocol is set to do with the greenhouse gas reduction target for the first commitment period (2008–2012). That's according to researchers at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, the US Environmental Protection Agency, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and DuPont Fluoroproducts, US, who modelled what might have happened to the climate had there not been a reduction in ozone-depleting substances in the atmosphere.
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