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The global treaty to save the ozone layer has also slowed Arctic ice melt

Grist

The 1987 Montreal Protocol, which phased out the production and use of chemicals that were depleting the ozone layer, has long been considered one of the most successful environmental treaties in history. The Montreal Protocol was created to address a hole in the stratospheric ozone layer over the Antarctic. In a 2022 report , a U.N.

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TED Talk: 3 Strategies for Effectively Talking About Climate Change

Sustainability Consulting

Here’s one of our favorites: The topic of climate change seems boring, technical and not relevant for the majority of people. The solution, according to Communications Specialist and Environmental Advocate John Marshall, is improving how we talk about climate change. Everyone loves a TED Talk. Why is that? In the U.S.

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How air pollution is making life tougher for bugs

Envirotec Magazine

Insect populations worldwide are in sharp decline as they battle against climate change, habitat loss and pesticides. Over a span of two years, we artificially elevated the levels of either ozone or diesel exhaust fumes around plots of flowering black mustard plants, all within fields of non-flowering wheat.

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A fresh crop of data

Envirotec Magazine

Record hot temperatures in the UK over the summer caused significant changes to the levels of harmful pollutants such as ozone and particulate matter, prompting a number of novel observations by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). Ozone events and their origins.

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What are ‘planetary boundaries’ and why should we care?

Envirotec Magazine

We’ve done it already in the 1990s, when international cooperation quickly phased out ozone-depleting chemicals and stopped the dangerous ozone hole from getting ever-bigger. We are still in the green for ozone-depleting chemicals. Three are based on what we take from the system: biodiversity loss fresh water land use.

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Why we will never win the argument on climate change

Terra Infirma

I once saw ‘lukewarmer’/overseer of a major banking disaster Matt Ridley present a list of “Past Green Scares” which included acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer and, bizarrely, the millennium bug. The post Why we will never win the argument on climate change appeared first on Terra Infirma.

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A non-partisan green movement is impossible today given its opponents

The Guardian: Energy

Since then progress has been made on mending the ozone layer and stopping acid rain but few are now pretending that environmental issues are non-partisan. Campaigners agreed everyone wanted to leave their children as good a planet as they inherited.

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