Montreal Protocol

and successive agreements have had are shown in Figure 2 by illustrating the fact that the The book only mentions the Montreal Protocol briefly near the end of the first chapter and outlines what chemicals have been banned. After further investigation on the topic I came across a link that goes into more detail about the protocol (http://exchange.unido.org/cmsupload/1509_2791686912_ozone.pdf). In this brochure you can see how many billions of dollars have been given to different countries and organizations to conduct research for finding alternative chemicals which do not damage the ozone. Another interesting fact was to see the amount of reduction of CFCs, HCFCs, methyl chloroform, etc. that has occurred in developed and developing countries since the Montreal Protocol was established (Table 2). The impact the original protocol and successive agreements had compared with if no action was taken is illustrated in Figure 2. I thought it was very interesting to see the predicted abundance of ozone depleting substances in the stratosphere if no action was taken. There is a lot more information about the Montreal Protocol and successive agreements in this brochure and I hope you take a look at it and better understand the impact it has had.