This e-Brief covers many of the developments that have occurred since the Kyoto meeting to the near finalisation of all outstanding issues at the COP7 meeting at Marrakesh in late 2001. It now appears that the required threshold number of countries willing to ratify the Protocol to allow it to come into effect has been reached. Australia's position on ratification is outlined, as is a summary of the 1990 to 2000 greenhouse gas inventory and some other non-environmental issues that have become entangled in the Kyoto debate.