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How Did We Save The Ozone Layer?

03/08/2016 GMT

The Inquiry: How Did We Save the Ozone Layer?

BBC World Service - The Essential, The Inquiry: How Did We Save the Ozone Layer?

Former director of Friends of the Earth describes the impact of targeting aerosol use

Former director of Friends of the Earth describes the huge impact of targeting aerosol use.

The story of how environmental campaigners persuaded people to stop using aerosols. In this excerpt from The Inquiry, the former director of Friends of the Earth, Jonathan Porritt, tells us about the campaign he lead in the 1980s to stop the use of aerosols. The success of the campaign wasn’t just down to slogans and leaflets; he may have also had a little bit of unexpected help from Princess Diana.

(Photo: Severe thinning of Earth's protective ozone layer found over Antarctica, by NASA scientists. Credit to: Getty Images)

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