Over the next seven days they’re bent on setting up an action plan against global warming.

Nationwide protests continue in Morocco following the death in a trash compacter of fishmonger  Mouchine Fikri.

He jumped into save confiscated swordfish thrown there by police.

Moroccan authorities have arrested 11, including police and local officials.

Rabat’s concerned this might deflect attention from the convention they want to make  an event of global dimension.

They’ve  spent 74 million euros on the occasion, presenting the nation as an example of modernity in a region torn by civil strife and natural disasters.

Environment Minister Hakima El Haite is the first Moroccan woman put center stage in policy matters.

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