2003 United Nations Climate Change Conference

{{Short description|International climate change conference in Italy}}

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| name = United Nations Climate Change Conference

| image = COP9 Logo.jpg

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| date = {{start date|2003|12|01|df=y}}–
{{end date|2003|12|12|df=y}}

| location = Milan, Italy

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| native_name = COP9

| prev = ← New Delhi 2002

| next = Buenos Aires 2004 →

| participants = UNFCCC member countries

| website = [http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/cop9/crp01.pdf Summary by the President of the Conference]

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The 2003 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place between 1–12 December 2003 in Milan, Italy.{{Cite book |last=Bhandari |first=Medani P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_iGEAAAQBAJ&dq=%222003+United+Nations+Climate+Change+Conference%22+-wikipedia&pg=PT197 |title=Getting the Climate Science Facts Right: The Role of the IPCC |date=2022-09-01 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-000-79720-6 |language=en}} The conference included the 9th Conference of the Parties (COP9) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The parties agreed to use the Adaptation Fund established at COP7 in 2001 primarily in supporting developing countries better adapt to climate change. 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.