Timeline Wednesday 16 September 1987

Events on Wednesday 16 September 1987 1

• 1987 The Montreal Protocol The one that worked Signed on 16 September 1987 and eventually ratified by every country on earth, the protocol phases out CFCs worldwide. It is generally reckoned the most successful international environmental agreement ever made, and the ozone layer is now measurably recovering. It is also the clearest evidence available that a global atmospheric problem can in fact be fixed.