Using the example of the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, Peter Bridgewater and his colleagues argue for ending “zombie” environmental-protection conventions (P. Bridgewater et al. Nature 632, 500–502; 2024). They name the 1987 Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting substances, arguing that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) could assume its “residual tasks”.
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