At its thirteenth session, the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) considered a draft text for a framework for meaningful and effective actions to enhance the implementation of Article 4.5 of the Convention. It agreed to further consider the draft text contained in document FCCC/SBSTA/2000/10/Add.4 adn additional submissions received from the Parties at the second part of its thirteenth session (FCCC/SBSTA/2000/10, para. 51 (b)). At the second part of the thirteenth session, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the United States of America provided a submission related to the framework for meaningful and effective actions referred to above. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, this submission is reproduced in the language in which it was received and without formal editing