The 2003 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place between 1–12 December 2003 in

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. The conference included the 9th Conference of the Parties (COP9) to the

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in th ...

(UNFCCC). The parties agreed to use

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established at COP7 in 2001 primarily in supporting

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better adapt to

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. The fund would also be used for capacity-building through technology transfer. At the conference, the parties also agreed to review the first national reports submitted by 110 non-Annex I countries.

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