Environmentalists had great expectations for “Hopenhagen,” and the talks received a lot of press long before they even rolled around. Yet another international meeting one month earlier was arguably of equal importance, foreshadowed the events in Denmark, and received almost no attention¹: the annual meeting of Montreal Protocol signatories. Read Solve Climate founder David Sassoon’s write-up.

^{1. None of the few dozen stories on Google News which mention the Montreal Protocol last year preceded the event. Most are specialist coverage of its impacts on various industries or countries still using CFCs, and a few others comment on Copenhagen by contrasting the successful effort to combat ozone depletion versus the relative lack of progress on global warming.}