Providing an account of the ozone-depletion issues from the attempts to develop international action in the 1970s to the mature functioning of the international

From the discovery of ozone in the eighteenth century, through the late twentieth-century international agreements to protect humanity from the destruction of o

In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into the atmosphere, and the damage this

By the 1950s CFCs had found further applications: as propellants in aerosol spray cans, in the manufacture of Styrofoam, and as vital industrial solvents. Then,