VOL. XLIV

No 45

5-November-2001

ENVIRONMENT

Climate ChangeConference Resumes In Marrakesh

The seventh sessionof the Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) opened in Marrakesh, Morocco, on 29 October with the objective of finalizingthe procedures and institutions needed to make the Kyoto Protocol on climatechange fully operational.Some 2,000delegates from 160 countries are to negotiate a package of formal conferencedecisions on the basis of political principles...