COP7 took place in Marrakech, Morocco, 29th October to 9th November 2001.

After COP7

Marrakesh Accords - Official UNFCCC document on the outcome of COP7
The final document is included in the official report of COP7 and comes in 4 parts:

• Part 1: decisions 1 to 14. Includes the Marrakesh Ministerial Declaration, capacity building, funding, sinks and single projects
• Part2: decisions 15 to 19. Includes ji, cdm, emissions trading and accounting for assigned amounts
• Part3: decisions 20 to 24. Includes compliance and articles 5, 7 and 8
• Part4:decisions 25 to 39 Includes ldc expert group, IPCC, adaptation and national communications
• Addendum, Corrigendum for part 1

COP7

Daily News during COP7
Official documents for COP7
CAN commentaries on Bonn Agreement (COP6 bis)
And more... NGO links, actions, Johannesburg

After COP7:CAN Analysis

• Public Participation in the CDM: Report from COP7, Nathalie Eddy, Greenpeace US, Feb 2002
• Compliance Sections of the Marrakech Accords, Glen Wiser, CIEL, Dec 2001
• Articles 5, 7 and 8 of the Marrakech Accords, Molly Anderson, VERTIC, Dec 2001
• Mechanisms eligibility and emissions trading: Note on the Marrakech Accords, Mark Kenber, WWF, Jan 2002

After COP7: Other Analyses

The analyses below are for information only and not necessarily endorsed by CNE

• After The Hague, Bonn and Marrakech: the future international market for emissions permits and the issue of Hot Air Blanchard, Criqui, Kitous, Institute of Energy Policy and Economics, Grenoble, France, 2002
• The Climate regime from The Hague to Marrakech: saving or sinking the climate Suraje Dessai, Tyndall Centre Working Paper, Dec 2001
• The Marrakech Accords , Donald Goldberg and Katherine Silverthorne. American Bar Association 'Climate Change and Sustainable Development Newsletter, Jan 2002. This article outlines the results of the Marrakech Accords without glossing over complexities.
• Successful Climate Bargaining in Marrakech, Hermann Ott, Wuppertal Institute
• Climate change After Marrakesh: should environmentalists still support the Kyoto Protocol?Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer, Ecoequity, Dec 2001
• Climate Change After Marrakech: the role of Europe in the global arena German Foreign Policy in Dialogue newsletter, 18th Dec 2001
• Marrakesh Accords:Discussion RIIA (Royal Institute of International Affairs), 29th Nov 2001. Meeting report by Christiaan Vrolijk
• COP7 Marrakech: Final Report DG Environment, 10th Nov 2001
• After Marrakech: the regionalisation of the Kyoto Protocol Centre for European Policy Studies, Nov 2001
• Summary of the Marrakech Accords on climate change Pew Center on Climate Nov 9th 2001

News since COP7.

• UNFCCC - list of deadlines for submission of information and views to the secretariat
• UNFCCC - new web page on CDM
• Joke Waller-Hunter appointed as new UNFCCC Executive Secretary
• Dates and places of COP8 and SB 16 confirmed. 18th Jan 2002
• Executive Board of Clean Development Mechanism to meet in Bonn 14-16 Jan 2002
• Portugal ratifies Kyoto Protocol 19th Dec 2001
• Norway: Kyoto target will be achieved without sinks speech to parliament, 29th Nov 2001
• Sweden: No sinks to achieve Kyoto target speech to parliament, 29th Nov 2001

COP7 Official documents

Marrakesh Accords

UNFCCC official web page for COP 7

During the second part of COP6, which took place in Bonn in July, the big breakthrough was agreement at a political level on key outstanding issues - the 'Bonn Agreement'. Delegates then set to work, following this political guidance, to prepare official texts. This was partly successful. Decisions were finalised on funding, capacity building etc (see 'Completed Decisions' below), but others still need elaboration at COP7 (see 'Incomplete Decisions' below)

• Bonn Agreement FCCC/CP2001/5 Political agreement from COP6 part 2

 
• COP6 part 2. Report (FCCC/CP/2001/5) (25th Sept 2001)

 
• COP6 part 2. Completed decisions to be forwarded to COP7 for adoption(FCCC/CP/2001/5/Add1)

(25th Sept 2001) This document contains the text of decisions on capacity building, technology transfer, education and training, the financial mechanism, funding and single projects.
 
• COP6 part 2. Incomplete decisions which still need elaborating at COP7 (FCCC/CP/2001/5/add2)

(25th Sept 2001) Contains text of the draft decisions on sinks (LULUCF), the flexible mechanisms, compliance, policies and measures and national systems of reporting (articles 5,7 and 8)
 
• Proposal by the Russian Federation (FCCC/2001/CP/Misc.6)

The Russian Federation introduced an amendment (10th Oct) to the Bonn agreement which implies a bigger sinks allowance for Russia.
 
• Report of the Worshop on Articles 5,7 and 8 (18th Oct 2001)

 
• IPCC TAR Synthesis Report

 
• Secretariat message to Parties on nominations to CDM executive Board

 
• Greenhouse gas emissions 1990-98 Annex I.( UNFCCC/SBI/2000/11)

CAN experts - Commentaries on the Bonn Agreements

• Public Participation
• Compliance
• Flexible Mechanisms
• Articles 5,7,8 (VERTIC Paper)

And More ...

• UNFCCC official web page for COP 7
• RAC Mahgreb Website of Réseau Action Climat Mahgreb (includes Moroccan NGOs)
• Urge MDBs to phase out fossil fuel investment! Go to the Bankwatch website and sign the letter (dated July 2001)
• Johannesburg Summit website 10th anniversary of the Rio Summit to take place in Johannesburg in September 2002
• UNED Forum's Rio+10 pages (Earth Summit 2002)