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The rational for this Policy Brief is to make clear the vital benefits of integrating biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management by taking the Ecosystemsbased Adaptation approach along with the Green Economy Initiative to achieve equitable multiple ‘win-win’ objectives to ensure the continued well-being of human society in the future.

“Even if the control measures of the Montreal Protocol were to be implemented by all nations, today’s atmospheric abundance of chlorine (about 3 parts per billion by volume (ppbv) will at least double to triple during the next century. If the atmospheric abundance of chlorine reaches 9 ppbv by about 2050, ozone depletion of 0–4 percent in the tropics and 4–12 percent at high latitudes would be predicted, even without including the effects of heterogeneous chemical processes known to occur in polar regions, which may further increase the magnitude of the predicted ozone depletion.”