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Ozone treaty could be used for greenhouse gases

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Montreal Protocol might find a new role in helping to reduce emissions of hydrofluorocarbons.

International negotiators might be bogged down in the ongoing United Nations climate talks, but there could yet be hope for an agreement on reducing emissions of a class of powerful greenhouse gases — using the same treaty that is responsible for the phasing out of gases responsible for destroying the ozone layer.

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Tollefson, J. Ozone treaty could be used for greenhouse gases. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.584

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