The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its thirty-fourth session, requested the secretariat, subject to the availability of resources, to continue to support the SBSTA dialogue on developments in research activities relevant to the needs of the Convention being held in the context of decision 9/CP.11 (hereinafter referred to as the research dialogue), including organizing further workshops, as appropriate, and to be agreed by the SBSTA, and enhancing the visibility of scientific information of relevance to the Convention on its website. At the same session, the SBSTA invited Parties to provide their views, by 19 September 2011, on the research dialogue, including ongoing activities, associated modalities and ways to enhance the dialogue, and to compile these submissions into a miscellaneous document for consideration by the SBSTA at its thirty-fifth session. The secretariat has received five such submissions. 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