@article{Ott2001, author = {Ott, Hermann E.}, title = {The Bonn Agreement to the Kyoto Protocol : paving the way for ratification}, journal = {International environmental agreements}, volume = {1}, number = {4}, doi = {10.1023/A:1013325120260}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-12717}, pages = {469 -- 476}, year = {2001}, abstract = {This article provides a short account of the international climate negotiations that took place in Bonn from 16 to 27 July 2001. After the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change failed in November 2000, the Parties had decided to suspend the meeting. The ministers present at the resumed session successfully adopted the {"}Bonn Agreement to the Kyoto Protocol{"}, a set of political compromises for the most contentious issues left open by the Kyoto Protocol. Although many details had been transferred to the Seventh Conference of the Parties, November 2001 in Marrakesh, Morocco, the Bonn Agreement already paved the way for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and its entry into force. The Marrakesh Accord adopted on 10 November 2001 transforms, with a few exceptions, this political agreement into bindinglegal text.}, language = {en} }