The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its twenty-first session, requested the secretariat (FCCC/SBSTA/2004/13, para. 20) to organize, under the guidance of the Chair of the SBSTA, an in-session workshop during its twenty-second session in order to continue to exchange information and share experiences and views on practical opportunities and solutions for mitigation that contribute to sustainable development, focusing on the following topics:
(a) Factors that affect mitigation technology innovation, deployment and diffusion, including international cooperative efforts, and identification and removal of barriers
(b) Socio-economic aspects of mitigation, such as costs and benefits, co-benefits, poverty reduction and economic impacts, including spillover effects.
The SBSTA invited Parties to submit to the secretariat, by 14 February 2005, their views on the organization of the in-session workshop, for compilation into a miscellaneous document. The secretariat has received nine such submissions. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, these submissions are reproduced in the language in which they were received and without formal editing