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Nature 408, 627 (7 December 2000) | doi:10.1038/35047229

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Successes in fight to save ozone layer could close holes by 2050

Mark Schrope

The international effort to halt ozone depletion through legislated reductions in the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) has been a success, according to leading climate researchers who met near Buenos Aires last month.The researchers, part of the World Climate Research Programme's project on stratospheric processes, predicted that the polar ozone holes should close for good in about 50 years.