Conventional wisdom has it that the devil is in the details. It is exactly devilish details that are waiting for climate-change negotiators trying to put the finishing touches on the Kyoto climate accord at negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco that will run until Nov. 9.
Spurred in part by the withdrawal of the United States -- which is responsible for nearly a quarter of the world's man-made greenhouse gases emissions -- from the Kyoto Protocol in March, signatories to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change mustered the political resolve to agree on the core issues of the Kyoto pact at the sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, or COP6, in July in Bonn.
After the breakdown of negotiations last November in The Hague, this meeting of minds came as a surprise to many.