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However, the CECs were not without eir own environmental problems. In September 1987 at the United Nations Environment Program Conference in Montreal, 24 countries signed the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. The protocol was the beginning of an international agreement on the reduction of CFCs that were shown to have a deleterious effect on the stratospheric ozone layer that protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation. The initial protocol targeted CFCs and halons (bromine-containing CFCs) and proposed a 50 percent reduction in production by 1998 based on 1986 levels. Revisions to the protocol led to a ban on the manufactme of CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals effective by the end of 1995. 

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