Ozone layer "saved": "Without it, there would be no life on Earth"

Director of research at the CNRS and president of the international commission on ozone, Sophie Godin-Beekmann is delighted that the Montreal Protocol, signed in 1987, has made it possible to reduce the production of gases responsible for the hole in the ozone layer.

This layer, which protects humanity from ultraviolet radiation, should be replenished within four decades.

But she warns those who would use geoengineering technologies that inject particles into the atmosphere to "cool the climate".

A solution that could have harmful consequences for the ozone layer.

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