Montreal Protocol - Wikipedia Montreal Protocol For other similarly named agreements, see Montreal Convention ( disambiguation ). Montreal Protocol Signed 14 -- 16 September 1987 Location Montreal Effective 1 January 1989 if 11 states have ratified by then. Condition ratification by 20 states Signatories 46 Ratifiers 197 ( all United Nations members, as well as Niue, the Cook Islands, the Holy See and the European Union ) Depositary Secretary - General of the United Nations Languages Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. Play media Retrospective video on the Montreal Protocol and the collaboration between policy - makers, scientists, and industry leaders to regulate CFCs. The largest Antarctic ozone hole recorded as of September 2006 The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer ( a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer ) is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. It was agreed on 26 August 1987, and entered into force on 26 January 1989, followed by a first meeting in Helsinki, May 1989. Since then, it has undergone eight revisions, in 1990 ( London ), 1991 ( Nairobi ), 1992 ( Copenhagen ), 1993 ( Bangkok ), 1995 ( Vienna ), 1997 ( Montreal ), 1998 ( Australia ), 1999 ( Beijing ) and 2016 ( Kigali, adopted, but not in force ). As a result of the international agreement, the ozone hole in Antarctica is slowly recovering. Climate projections indicate that the ozone layer will return to 1980 levels between 2050 and 2070. Due to its widespread adoption and implementation it has been hailed as an example of exceptional international co-operation, with Kofi Annan quoted as saying that `` perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol ''. In comparison, effective burden sharing and solution proposals mitigating regional conflicts of interest have been among the success factors for the ozone depletion challenge, where global regulation based on the Kyoto Protocol has failed to do so. In this case of the ozone depletion challenge, there was global regulation already being installed before a scientific consensus was established. Also, overall public opinion was convinced of possible imminent risks. The two ozone treaties have been ratified by 197 parties, which includes 196 states and the European Union, making them the first universally ratified treaties in United Nations history. These truly universal treaties have also been remarkable in the expedience of the policy - making process at the global scale, where only 14 years lapsed between a basic scientific research discovery ( 1973 ) and the international agreement signed ( 1985 & 1987 ). Contents 1 Terms and purposes 1.1 Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) Phase - out Management Plan 1.2 Hydrochlorofluorocarbons ( HCFCs ) Phase - out Management Plan ( HPMP ) 1.3 Hydrofluorocarbons ( HFCs ) 2 History 3 Multilateral Fund 4 Parties 5 Effect 6 25th anniversary celebrations 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links Terms and purposes The treaty is structured around several groups of halogenated hydrocarbons that deplete stratospheric ozone. All of the ozone depleting substances controlled by the Montreal Protocol contain either chlorine or bromine ( substances containing only fluorine do not harm the ozone layer ). Some ozone - depleting substances ( ODSs ) are not yet controlled by the Montreal Protocol, including nitrous oxide ( N2O ) For a table of ozone - depleting substances controlled by the Montreal Protocol see : For each group of ODSs, the treaty provides a timetable on which the production of those substances must be shot out and eventually eliminated. Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) phase - out Management plan The stated purpose of the treaty is that the signatory states `` Recognizing that worldwide emissions of certain substances can significantly deplete and otherwise modify the ozone layer in a manner that is likely to result in adverse effects on human health and the environment. Determined to protect the ozone layer by taking precautionary measures to control equitably total global emissions of substances that deplete it with the ultimate objective of their elimination on the basis of developments in scientific knowledge '' `` Acknowledging that special provision is required to meet the needs of developing countries '' shall accept a series of stepped limits on CFC use and production, including : from 1991 to 1992 its levels of consumption and production of the controlled substances in Group I of Annex A do not exceed 150 percent of its calculated levels of production and consumption of those substances in 1986 ; from 1994 its calculated level of consumption and production of the controlled substances in Group I of Annex A does not exceed, annually, twenty - five percent of its calculated level of consumption and production in 1986. from 1996 its calculated level of consumption and production of the controlled substances in Group I of Annex A does not exceed zero. There was a faster phase - out of halon - 1211, - 2402, - 1301, There was a slower phase - out ( to zero by 2010 ) of other substances ( halon 1211, 1301, 2402 ; CFCs 13, 111, 112, etc. ) and some chemicals were given individual attention ( Carbon tetrachloride ; 1, 1, 1 - trichloroethane ). The phasing - out of the less damaging HCFCs only began in 1996 and will go on until a complete phasing - out is achieved by 2030. There were a few exceptions for `` essential uses '', where no acceptable substitutes were initially found ( for example, in the past metered dose inhalers commonly used to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were exempt ) or Halon fire suppression systems used in submarines and aircraft ( but not in general industry ). The substances in Group I of Annex A are : CFCl ( CFC - 11 ) CF Cl ( CFC - 12 ) C F Cl ( CFC - 113 ) C F Cl ( CFC - 114 ) C F Cl ( CFC - 115 ) The provisions of the Protocol include the requirement that the Parties to the Protocol base their future decisions on the current scientific, environmental, technical, and economic information that is assessed through panels drawn from the worldwide expert communities. To provide that input to the decision - making process, advances in understanding on these topics were assessed in 1989, 1991, 1994, 1998 and 2002 in a series of reports entitled Scientific assessment of ozone depletion, by the Scientific Assessment Panel ( SAP ). In 1990 a Technology and Economic Assessment Panel was also established as the technology and economics advisory body to the Montreal Protocol Parties. The Technology and Economic Assessment Panel ( TEAP ) provides, at the request of Parties, technical information related to the alternative technologies that have been investigated and employed to make it possible to virtually eliminate use of Ozone Depleting Substances ( such as CFCs and Halons ), that harm the ozone layer. The TEAP is also tasked by the Parties every year to assess and evaluate various technical issues including evaluating nominations for essential use exemptions for CFCs and halons, and nominations for critical use exemptions for methyl bromide. TEAP 's annual reports are a basis for the Parties ' informed decision - making. Numerous reports have been published by various inter-governmental, governmental and non-governmental organizations to catalogue and assess alternatives to the ozone depleting substances, since the substances have been used in various technical sectors, like in refrigeration, air conditioning, flexible and rigid foam, fire protection, aerospace, electronics, agriculture, and laboratory measurements Hydrochlorofluorocarbons ( HCFCs ) phase - out Management plan ( hpmp ) Under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, especially Executive Committee ( ExCom ) 53 / 37 and ExCom 54 / 39, Parties to this Protocol agreed to set year 2013 as the time to freeze the consumption and production of HCFCs. They also agreed to start reducing its consumption and production in 2015. The time of freezing and reducing HCFCs is then known as 2013 - 2015. The HCFCs are transitional CFCs replacements, used as refrigerants, solvents, blowing agents for plastic foam manufacture, and fire extinguishers. In terms of ozone depletion potential ( ODP ), in comparison to CFCs that have ODP 0.6 -- 1.0, these HCFCs have lower ODPs ( 0.01 -- 0.5 ). In terms of global warming potential ( GWP ), in comparison to CFCs that have GWP 4,680 -- 10,720, HCFCs have lower GWPs ( 76 -- 2,270 ). Hydrofluorocarbons ( HFCs ) This section needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( October 2016 ) Produced mostly in developed countries, hydrofluorocarbons ( HFCs ) replaced CFCs and HCFCs. HFCs pose no harm to the ozone layer because, unlike CFCs and HCFCs, they do not contain chlorine. They are however greenhouse gases, with a high global warming potential ( GWP ), comparable to that of CFCs and HCFCs. Thus, in 2009, a study calculated that a fast phasedown of high - GWP HFCs could potentially prevent the equivalent of up to 8.8 Gt CO2 - eq per year in emissions by 2050. A proposed phasedown of HFCs was hence projected to avoid up to 0.5 C of warming by 2100 under the high - HFC growth scenario, and up to 0.35 C under the low - HFC growth scenario. Recognizing the opportunity presented for fast and effective phasing down of HFCs through the Montreal Protocol, starting in 2009 the Federated States of Micronesia proposed an amendment to phase down high - GWP HFCs, with the U.S., Canada, and Mexico following with a similar proposal in 2010. After seven years of negotiations, in October 2016 at the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Kigali, the Parties to the Montreal Protocol adopted the Kigali Amendment whereby the Parties agreed to phasedown HFCs under the Montreal Protocol. The amendment to the legally - binding Montreal Protocol will ensure that industrialised countries bring down their HFC production and consumption by at least 85 per cent compared to their annual average values in the period 2011 - 2013. A group of developing countries including China, Brazil and South Africa are mandated to reduce their HFC use by 85 per cent of their average value in 2020 - 22 by the year 2045. India and some other developing countries -- Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and some oil economies like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait -- will cut down their HFCs by 85 per cent of their values in 2024 - 26 by the year 2047. On 17 November 2017, ahead of the 29th Meeting of the Parties of the Montreal Protocol, Sweden became the 20th Party to ratify the Kigali Amendment, pushing the Amendment over its ratification threshold ensuring that the Amendment will enter into force 1 January 2019. History In 1973, the chemists Frank Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina, who were then at the University of California, Irvine, began studying the impacts of CFCs in the Earth 's atmosphere. They discovered that CFC molecules were stable enough to remain in the atmosphere until they got up into the middle of the stratosphere where they would finally ( after an average of 50 -- 100 years for two common CFCs ) be broken down by ultraviolet radiation releasing a chlorine atom. Rowland and Molina then proposed that these chlorine atoms might be expected to cause the breakdown of large amounts of ozone ( O ) in the stratosphere. Their argument was based upon an analogy to contemporary work by Paul J. Crutzen and Harold Johnston, which had shown that nitric oxide ( NO ) could catalyze the destruction of ozone. ( Several other scientists, including Ralph Cicerone, Richard Stolarski, Michael McElroy, and Steven Wofsy had independently proposed that chlorine could catalyze ozone loss, but none had realized that CFCs were a potentially large source of chlorine. ) Crutzen, Molina and Rowland were awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on this problem. The environmental consequence of this discovery was that, since stratospheric ozone absorbs most of the ultraviolet - B ( UV - B ) radiation reaching the surface of the planet, depletion of the ozone layer by CFCs would lead to an increase in UV - B radiation at the surface, resulting in an increase in skin cancer and other impacts such as damage to crops and to marine phytoplankton. But the Rowland - Molina hypothesis was strongly disputed by representatives of the aerosol and halocarbon industries. The chair of the board of DuPont was quoted as saying that ozone depletion theory is `` a science fiction tale... a load of rubbish... utter nonsense ''. Robert Abplanalp, the president of Precision Valve Corporation ( and inventor of the first practical aerosol spray can valve ), wrote to the Chancellor of UC Irvine to complain about Rowland 's public statements ( Roan, p. 56. ) After publishing their pivotal paper in June 1974, Rowland and Molina testified at a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives in December 1974. As a result, significant funding was made available to study various aspects of the problem and to confirm the initial findings. In 1976, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) released a report that confirmed the scientific credibility of the ozone depletion hypothesis. NAS continued to publish assessments of related science for the next decade. Then, in 1985, British Antarctic Survey scientists Joe Farman, Brian Gardiner and Jonathan Shanklin published results of abnormally low ozone concentrations above Halley Bay near the South Pole. They speculated that this was connected to increased levels of CFCs in the atmosphere. It took several other attempts to establish the Antarctic losses as real and significant, especially after NASA had retrieved matching data from its satellite recordings. The impact of these studies, the metaphor ' ozone hole ', and the colourful visual representation in a time lapse animation proved shocking enough for negotiators in Montreal, Canada to take the issue seriously. Also in 1985, 20 nations, including most of the major CFC producers, signed the Vienna Convention, which established a framework for negotiating international regulations on ozone - depleting substances. After the discovery of the ozone hole by SAGE 2 it only took 18 months to reach a binding agreement in Montreal, Canada. But the CFC industry did not give up that easily. As late as 1986, the Alliance for Responsible CFC Policy ( an association representing the CFC industry founded by DuPont ) was still arguing that the science was too uncertain to justify any action. In 1987, DuPont testified before the US Congress that `` We believe there is no imminent crisis that demands unilateral regulation. '' And even in March 1988, Du Pont Chair Richard E. Heckert would write in a letter to the United States Senate, `` we will not produce a product unless it can be made, used, handled and disposed of safely and consistent with appropriate safety, health and environmental quality criteria. At the moment, scientific evidence does not point to the need for dramatic CFC emission reductions. There is no available measure of the contribution of CFCs to any observed ozone change... '' Multilateral Fund The main objective of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol is to assist developing country parties to the Montreal Protocol whose annual per capita consumption and production of ozone depleting substances ( ODS ) is less than 0.3 kg to comply with the control measures of the Protocol. Currently, 147 of the 196 Parties to the Montreal Protocol meet these criteria ( they are referred to as Article 5 countries ). It embodies the principle agreed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 that countries have a common but differentiated responsibility to protect and manage the global commons. The Fund is managed by an Executive Committee with an equal representation of seven industrialized and seven Article 5 countries, which are elected annually by a Meeting of the Parties. The Committee reports annually to the Meeting of the Parties on its operations. The work of the Multilateral Fund on the ground in developing countries is carried out by four Implementing Agencies, which have contractual agreements with the Executive Committee : United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ), through its OzonAction Programme. United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ). United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ). World Bank. Up to 20 percent of the contributions of contributing parties can also be delivered through their bilateral agencies in the form of eligible projects and activities. The fund is replenished on a three - year basis by the donors. Pledges amount to US $3.1 billion over the period 1991 to 2005. Funds are used, for example, to finance the conversion of existing manufacturing processes, train personnel, pay royalties and patent rights on new technologies, and establish national ozone offices. Parties As of 23 June 2015, all countries in the United Nations, the Cook Islands, Holy See, Niue and the European Union have ratified the original Montreal Protocol ( see external link below ), with South Sudan being the last country to ratify the agreement, bringing the total to 197. These countries have also ratified the London, Copenhagen, Montreal, and Beijing amendments. Effect Ozone - depleting gas trends Since the Montreal Protocol came into effect, the atmospheric concentrations of the most important chlorofluorocarbons and related chlorinated hydrocarbons have either leveled off or decreased. Halon concentrations have continued to increase, as the halons presently stored in fire extinguishers are released, but their rate of increase has slowed and their abundances are expected to begin to decline by about 2020. Also, the concentration of the HCFCs increased drastically at least partly because for many uses ( e.g. used as solvents or refrigerating agents ) CFCs were substituted with HCFCs. While there have been reports of attempts by individuals to circumvent the ban, e.g. by smuggling CFCs from undeveloped to developed nations, the overall level of compliance has been high. Statistical analysis from 2010 show a clear positive signal from the Montreal Protocol to the stratospheric ozone. In consequence, the Montreal Protocol has often been called the most successful international environmental agreement to date. In a 2001 report, NASA found the ozone thinning over Antarctica had remained the same thickness for the previous three years, however in 2003 the ozone hole grew to its second largest size. The most recent ( 2006 ) scientific evaluation of the effects of the Montreal Protocol states, `` The Montreal Protocol is working : There is clear evidence of a decrease in the atmospheric burden of ozone - depleting substances and some early signs of stratospheric ozone recovery. '' However, a more recent study seems to point to a relative increase in CFCs due to an unknown source. Reported in 1997, significant production of CFCs occurred in Russia for sale on the black market to the EU throughout the 90s. Related US production and consumption was enabled by fraudulent reporting due to poor enforcement mechanisms. Similar illegal markets for CFCs were detected in Taiwan, Korea, and Hong Kong.. The Montreal Protocol is also expected to have effects on human health. A 2015 report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the protection of the ozone layer under the treaty will prevent over 280 million cases of skin cancer, 1.5 million skin cancer deaths, and 45 million cataracts in the United States. However, the hydrochlorofluorocarbons, or HCFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, are now thought to contribute to anthropogenic global warming. On a molecule - for - molecule basis, these compounds are up to 10,000 times more potent greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide. The Montreal Protocol currently calls for a complete phase - out of HCFCs by 2030, but does not place any restriction on HFCs. Since the CFCs themselves are equally powerful greenhouse gases, the mere substitution of HFCs for CFCs does not significantly increase the rate of anthropogenic climate change, but over time a steady increase in their use could increase the danger that human activity will change the climate. Policy experts have advocated for increased efforts to link ozone protection efforts to climate protection efforts. Policy decisions in one arena affect the costs and effectiveness of environmental improvements in the other. In 2018, scientists monitoring the atmosphere following the 2010 phaseout date have reported evidence of continuing industrial production of CFC - 11, likely in eastern Asia, with detrimental global effects on the ozone layer. 25th anniversary celebrations The year 2012 marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Montreal Protocol. Accordingly, the Montreal Protocol community organized a range of celebrations at the national, regional and international levels to publicize its considerable success to date and to consider the work ahead for the future. Among its accomplishments are : The Montreal Protocol was the first international treaty to address a global environmental regulatory challenge ; the first to embrace the `` precautionary principle '' in its design for science - based policymaking ; the first treaty where independent experts on atmospheric science, environmental impacts, chemical technology, and economics, reported directly to Parties, without edit or censorship, functioning under norms of professionalism, peer review, and respect ; the first to provide for national differences in responsibility and financial capacity to respond by establishing a multilateral fund for technology transfer ; the first MEA with stringent reporting, trade, and binding chemical phase - out obligations for both developed and developing countries ; and, the first treaty with a financial mechanism managed democratically by an Executive Board with equal representation by developed and developing countries. Within 25 years of signing, parties to the MP celebrate significant milestones. Significantly, the world has phased - out 98 % of the Ozone - Depleting Substances ( ODS ) contained in nearly 100 hazardous chemicals worldwide ; every country is in compliance with stringent obligations ; and, the MP has achieved the status of the first global regime with universal ratification ; even the newest member state, South Sudan, ratified in 2013. UNEP received accolades for achieving global consensus that `` demonstrates the world 's commitment to ozone protection, and more broadly, to global environmental protection ''. See also Carbon footprint Copenhagen Accord Greenhouse gases Kyoto Protocol Net Capacity Factor Ozone depletion Paris Agreement R - 134a Refrigerant Vienna Conference ( 1985 ) Action for climate empowerment ( ACE ) References This article incorporates public domain material from the CIA World Factbook document `` 2003 edition ''. 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Question: which problem does the montreal protocol attempt to remedy
Answer: ozone depletion