Next year, parties will negotiate the three-year replenishment of the Fund for 2027-29 and this year the parties negotiated ...

The treaty is universal with 197 member countries. It is legally binding with penalties for countries that flout its provisions. And it is fully funded, meaning poorer countries that might not have ...

A newly published study notes that the ozone layer is continuing to heal and could recover completely, thanks to the global actions from the 1987 Montreal Protocol. The research, published in Nature, ...

With so many dire reports coming out about the state of the climate, it’s easy to feel hopeless. But humanity has shown in the past that we can come together to solve seemingly insurmountable ...

The UN has delivered rare environmental good news: the Earth’s ozone layer is on the mend, and the vast hole […] ...

A global phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons in the Montreal Protocol is the best opportunity to stabilize temperatures in the near term. An iceberg is seen off Ammassalik Island in Eastern Greenland, ...

Thanks to the Montreal Protocol, the ozone layer - which was severely damaged 30 years ago - is recovering, protecting millions from skin cancer, cataracts, and mitigating climate change. The Montreal ...

New research shows that the 1987 global treaty, designed to protect the ozone layer, has postponed the occurrence of the first ice-free Arctic by as much as 15 years. When scientists discovered a hole ...

Since the Montreal Protocol was signed in 1987, countries have phased out most of the ozone-damaging gases, but their replacements, the HFCs, are powerful greenhouse gases that contribute to climate ...