Climate, Energy & Environment

Study shows efforts to restore Earth's depleted ozone layer are 'on track'

If the policies and trends continue the ozone layer is expected to recover to 1980 values – before the appearance of the ozone hole – by around 2066 over the Antarctic, and by 2045 over the Arctic and 2040 for the rest of the world.

, and John Heilprin

January 9, 2023 . 9:15 PM

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Scientists are hopeful that reducing the ‘ozone hole’ can help the planet heal (AN/Bhavya Pratap Singh/Unsplash)

GENEVA (AN) — The ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades, the U.N. environment and weather agencies reported, saying the global phaseout of ozone-depleting chemicals is helping to fight climate change.

A U.N.-backed panel of experts presented those findings on Monday to the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting, the U.N. Environment Program and World Meteorological Organization said.

The U.N.-backed Scientific Assessment Panel to the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depleting Substances publishes its assessment report once every four years.