1. The Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), at its thirty-ninth session, invited the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to continue to provide information on its activities relating to the preparation of biennial update reports by Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention, including information on the dates of requests for funding, approval of funding and disbursement of funds, for consideration at SBI 40. 2. The required information referred to in paragraph 1 above, provided by the GEF, is reproduced in the annex as received from the GEF without formal editing