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30 October 1999

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SUBSIDIARY BODY FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVICE

Eleventh session

Bonn, 25 October - 5 November 1999

Agenda item 11 (b)

1. The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) welcomed the

oral report of the secretariat on its cooperation with other United Nations bodies. It reiterated that the activities of the secretariat to facilitate coordination should ensure that the activities of the United Nations bodies respond to needs identified by the Convention bodies. It requested the secretariat to collect and make available information on related activities of United Nations bodies to ensure consistent and coordinated action.

1. The SBSTA noted the project proposal prepared by the secretariat with the

cooperation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), as contained in document FCCC/SBSTA/1999/INF.8/Add.1. It requested the secretariat and the four implementing agencies of the project to ensure that full account is taken of all relevant decisions of the Conference of the Parties (COP), and in particular of decision -/CP.5 on capacity-building, in the further stages of this project.

1. It invited the World Health Organization (WHO) to report to the next session of

the SBSTA on its activities related to the risk to human health of climate change, with a view to determining how cooperation with WHO could be strengthened, for example in the area of public information.