A submission has been received from Tuvalu entitled "An international blueprint on adaptation". Following a request from Tuvalu, this submission has been issued as a miscellaneous document under agenda item 6 of the Conference of the Parties and under agenda item 13 of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, this submission is reproduced in the language in which it was received and without formal editing