Mean global total ozone is estimated as the latitudinally weighted average of total ozone measured by the TOMS and OMI satellite mounted ozone measurement devices for the periods 1979-1992 and 2005-2015 respectively. The TOMS dataset shows an OLS depletion rate of 0.65 DU per year on average in...

The Montreal Protocol is considered the most successful international environmental treaty. Its effectiveness has made it a model for other agreements, but its power goes beyond protecting the stratospheric ozone layer. Much of the implementing legislation appears in Title VI of the Clean Air...

Climate change is closely interconnected with other environmental problems, including stratospheric ozone depletion, and local and regional air pollution. Such interlinkages have created opportunities for strengthening the global response to climate change, and international legal regimes...

Empirical surveys find no significant impact of environmental regulation and environmental costs on international competitiveness. In the literature, we can find three hypotheses on the impact of environmental regulation. For the industrial-flight and pollution-haven hypothesis, there is no...