Updates from the Scientific Assessment Panel on the Montreal Protocol (MP) indicates that the ozone layer is recovering, with conditions expected to return to 1980 levels by 2066.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which announced this attributed it to the implementation of the 1989 Montreal Protocol, which required actions to slow down ozone layer depletion.
The EPA Acting Director of Climate Change and Ozone Joseph Amankwa Baffoe, said research had suggested that the depletion rate slowed since the protocol came into force, 35 years ago.
Furthermore, he disclosed that the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere would peak by the middle of the century if all parties to the Montreal Protocol and its amendments comply with their commitments.