Views on methodological guidance for non-market-based approaches related to the implementation of the activities referred to in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70. Submissions from Parties and admitted observer organizations.
1. The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its thirty-eighth session, invited Parties and admitted observer organizations to submit to the secretariat, by 26 March 2014, their views on methodological guidance for non-market-based approaches. It requested the secretariat to compile the submissions into a miscellaneous document for consideration at SBSTA 40. 2. The secretariat has received six such submissions from Parties. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, these submissions are attached and reproduced* in the language in which they were received and without formal editing. 3. In line with established practice, the three submissions received from non-governmental organizations have been posted on the UNFCCC website