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Marrakesh Accords  

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  • The Marrakesh (or Marrakech) Accords is the name given to the agreements reached at the Seventh Conference of the Parties (COP 7) at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in October/November 2001 in Marrakesh, Morocco. The meeting and the accords signed were related to the issue of meeting the targets on climate change established as part of the Kyoto Protocol, which was the result of the Third Conference of the Parties (COP 3) finally agreed in 1997 and followed by the first session of the Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP 6) at the Hague (November 2000) and the second session in Bonn, Germany (July 2001), at which various political agreements resulting from the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol were resolved. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change; Marrakesh Accords]

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