FCCC/SBSTA/2005/Misc.17/Rev.1

Progress report on preparing a coordinated response from space agencies involved in global observations to the needs expressed in the Implementation Plan for the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC. Revised submission by Argentina on behalf of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites.

The Conference of the Parties, by its decision 5/CP.10, expressed its appreciation to the Global Climate Observing System for preparing the Implementation Plan for the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC.1 It invited Parties that support space agencies involved in global observations to request these agencies to provide a coordinated response to the needs expressed in the implementation plan. In response to this invitation, Argentina, the Chair of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), on behalf of CEOS, submitted a document for consideration by the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice at its twenty-third session. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, this submission is reproduced in the language in which it was received from the CEOS secretariat and without formal editing

Item 9 of the provisional agenda

Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), Twenty-third session, 28 November - 6 December 2005, Montreal, Canada

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