Montreal Protocol Agreements and Amendments Collection

A collection of multilateral environmental instruments related to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. It includes the headquarters agreement between Canada and the Multilateral Fund, the Montreal Protocol text, and a series of adopted amendments and adjustments. The dataset is archived and is provided for research or recordkeeping purposes only.

Use Cases

• Analyze the text of the Montreal Protocol and its amendments to track changes in controls on ozone-depleting substances.
• Study the headquarters agreement between Canada and the Multilateral Fund to understand the governance and operational framework.
• Reference the collection of multilateral instruments for historical legal and policy research on environmental treaties.

Strengths

• Includes the foundational Montreal Protocol treaty document.
• Contains a series of amendments and adjustments adopted under the Protocol.
• Provided by the authoritative organization Global Affairs Canada.

Limitations

• Dataset is explicitly marked as archived and out-of-date, not updated since archiving.
• Data is only available in PDF format, limiting machine-readability and analysis.
• No structured column or row data is provided, requiring manual text extraction.

Provenance

Source

Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada

Collection Method

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Time Range

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Geography

International, with specific relation to Canada and the City of Montreal