Whatever happened to the ozone hole?
Episode description
A story of how we saved the planet, and how we need to do it again
Glossary: green finance, Montreal Protocol, ozone depletion, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, Kyoto Protocol, Conference of Parties (COP), Paris Agreement, European Green Deal, climate neutrality, carbon offsetting, climate change, carbon trading, carbon pricing
Sources:
Defining "green" in the context of green finance, European Commission, 2017
European Green Deal, European Commission, 2019
Stratospheric Sink for Chlorofluoromethanes: Chlorine Atom-Catalysed Destruction of Ozone. Mario Molina and FS Rowland, Nature, 1974
The World Solved the Ozone Problem. It Can Solve Climate Change. The Editorial Board, New York Times, 2019
Has the Kyoto protocol made any difference to carbon emissions? Duncan Clark, The Guardian, 2012
climate.nasa.gov, NASA (Goddard Institute for Space Studies)
unep.org, Unite Nations Environment Programme
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