The conference will grapple with how to implement the Paris climate change agreement that came into force last week.

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Morocco’s been powering ahead on climate change in a region beset with a military coup, chaotic regime change and civil war.

The kingdom’s ranked the world’s sixth best country in the 2016 Climate Change Performance Index.

It’s the only non-European country in the top-20.

Earlier this year, Morocco opened Noor 1, a solar power plant in the Sahara so enormous it can be seen from space.

It’s all part of a push to generate 52% of its energy from renewables by 2030.

Two years ago the turbines started spinning at Tarfaya, the largest wind farm in Africa.

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