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http://www.globalissues.org/article/297/cop7-marrakesh-climate-
conference From 29th October to 9th November, 2001, governments
met in Marrakesh, Morocco, for the 7th Conference of the Parties
to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP7). The
purpose of the meeting was to agree legal text covering
outstanding technical aspects of the political agreement reached
in Bonn in July 2001 on how to implement the Kyoto Protocol.
While the U.S. were not there, as they had pulled out of the
talks earlier in 2001, an agreement did result in Bonn, which
was though, criticized for being watered down from the 1997
Kyoto Protocol (which itself was a watered down treaty.) The
COP7 meeting ended with agreement1 on how to enforce the Kyoto
accord on tackling climate change. As the previous link reports,
there were some further concessions to be made due to "co-
ordinated obstruction" by nations such as Japan, Canada and
Russia that wanted thin