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Protecting the Ozone Layer - Lessons, Models, and Prospects (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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Protecting the Ozone Layer - Lessons, Models, and Prospects (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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Protecting the Ozone Layer: Lessons, Models, and Prospects Since
the mid-1980s, the international community has adopted several
significant instruments designed to reverse the degradation of the
life support systems of the planet. None of these international
agreements have been as successful as the 1987 Montreal Protocol in
creating the incentives and mechanisms for protecting the ozone
layer. Through the efforts of industry, government and public
interest groups, national commitments and achievements have
progressed further and faster than expected, while the list of
controlled chemicals has expanded. Now in its second decade, the
Protocol enters a crucial phase of its implementation. Protecting
the Ozone Layer: Lessons, Models, and Prospects presents a wealth
of information about the scientific, legal-political, and
technological hurdles that we will have to overcome if humanity is
to reverse its self-destructive course. The technology section in
particular should appeal to industries affected by ozone layer
protection as well as those affected by climate protection, since
this is the first ozone publication featuring insights by the
companies that spearheaded the major technological breakthroughs.
Every initiative to improve the environmental performance of
industry has been accompanied by pronouncements of economic
devastation, from acid rain to auto emissions standards, from auto
mileage improvements to the protection of the ozone layer. Each new
initiative brought claims from industry that this situation was
different, yet none of their predictions have come true. At a time
when industry fights efforts to protect the environment, the ozone
experience shows both how technical breakthroughs have enabled
environmental protection policies to work in the past and how they
will work again in the future. Protecting the Ozone Layer: Lessons,
Models, and Prospects is the product of a Colloquium that was
organized in September 1997 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of
the Montreal Protocol. Contributions have been gathered from
researchers and practitioners in the field, including some of the
very same scientists whose work awakened the international
community to the seriousness of the danger that humanity now faces.
Other contributors include the scholars and diplomats who wrote and
negotiated the text of the Protocol and its amendments, and the key
figures who have been influential in convincing industry to support
the process.
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