Montreal An Unlikely Success Story

Was the Montreal Protocol inevitable We may have forgotten that CFCs, which had been invented in the 1930s, were for decades considered ideal chemicals. Nontoxic, nonflammable, noncorrosive, cheap, and easy to produce, CFCs and their bromine cousins, the 

Only a few weeks before the final negotiating round in Montreal, most knowledgeable observers did not believe that an agreement would be possible. In the face of these not-trivial obstacles, what made the Montreal Protocol memorable  

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