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“ BUT MARRAKECH CANNOT BE ONLY ABOUT CELEBRATION, IMPORTANT AS THAT IS. IT MUST BE A CONFERENCE OF ACTION AND OF VISION”The UN climate conference in the historic city of Marrakech will be a unique occasion of celebration and reality check. After over two decades of international negotiations, nations will meet with an ambitious and universal treaty in force less than 12 months after the Paris Climate Change Agreement was adopted in the French capital to worldwide acclaim.Early in October over 60 Parties to the convention covering over 55 per cent of the globe’s greenhouse gas emissions submitted their instruments of ratification to the Office of Legal Affairs in New York.It triggered a 30-day countdown for entry into force, and here in Marrakech a firework moment for so many people from so many countries who have worked hard and long to realize a new departure and new hope for billions of people everywhere.PATRICIA ESPINOSA, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, UN FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE (UNFCCC)“WE’RE TAKING CLIMATE ACTION”012 FOREWORD