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The document discusses the ozone layer and its importance in protecting life on Earth from ultraviolet radiation. It then explains that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were depleting the ozone layer after being released into the atmosphere. In response, the Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol were adopted in 1985 and 1987 respectively to regulate emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals and help restore the ozone layer. Recent findings show the ozone layer is steadily repairing itself and expected to fully heal by 2060 due to global reductions in ozone-depleting substances.

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The document discusses the ozone layer and its importance in protecting life on Earth from ultraviolet radiation. It then explains that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were depleting the ozone layer after being released into the atmosphere. In response, the Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol were adopted in 1985 and 1987 respectively to regulate emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals and help restore the ozone layer. Recent findings show the ozone layer is steadily repairing itself and expected to fully heal by 2060 due to global reductions in ozone-depleting substances.

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Our Environment

Ozone layer
Vanya Kheterpal X-C 26

I OZONE LAYER
• The ozone layer is one layer of the stratosphere, the second layer of the
Earth’s atmosphere. The stratosphere is the mass of protective gases clinging to our
planet.

• Ozone is only a trace gas in the atmosphere—only about 3 molecules for every 10
million molecules of air. But it does a very important job. Like a sponge, the ozone
layer absorbs bits of radiation hitting Earth from the sun. Even though we need some of
the sun's radiation to live, too much of it can damage living things. The ozone layer acts
as a shield for life on Earth.

• Ozone is good at trapping a type of radiation called ultraviolet radiation, or UV light,


which can penetrate organisms’ protective layers, like skin, damaging DNA molecules
in plants and animals. There are two major types of UV light: UVB and UVA.
• The ozone layer is also instrumental in curbing the effects of climate change, with the
barrier stopping approximately 135 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions from
entering the atmosphere between 1990 to 2010, UNEP said.

II CHEMICALS LEADING TO DEPLETION OF OZONE


LAYER
A chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) is a molecule that contains the elements carbon, chlorine,
and fluorine. CFCs are everywhere, mostly in refrigerants and plastic products.
Businesses and consumers use them because they're inexpensive, they don't catch fire
easily, and they don't usually poison living things. But the CFCs start eating away at the
ozone layer once they get blown into the stratosphere.
Many governments and businesses agreed that some chemicals, like AEROSOL
CANS, should be outlawed.

III REGULATIONS PUT TO CONTROL THE


EMISSION OF OZONE-DEPLETING CHEMICALS
In 1985 the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer was adopted and
entered into force in 1988.
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (the
Montreal Protocol) is an international agreement made in 1987. It was
designed to stop the production and import of ozone depleting substances
and reduce their concentration in the atmosphere to help protect the earth's
ozone layer.

2
The Montreal Protocol sits under the Vienna Convention for the Protection of
the Ozone Layer (the Vienna Convention). The Vienna Convention was
adopted in 1985 following international discussion of scientific discoveries in
the 1970s and 1980s highlighting the adverse effect of human activity on
ozone levels in the stratosphere and the discovery of the ‘ozone hole’. Its
objectives are to promote cooperation on the adverse effects of human
activities on the ozone layer.
*The ozone layer is steadily repairing itself following a drastic global reduction in the
use of ozone-depleting substances, the UN's environmental agency has found. The
world's ozone layer is on track to be completely healed by the 2060s, according to
modelling by the UN's environmental agency (UNEP).

Hope that the ozone hole continues to heal.

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