The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its seventeenth session, decided to review, at its twenty-third session, the progress of the work on the scientific and methodological aspects of the proposal by Brazil. At SBSTA 23, Parties agreed to return to the consideration of this issue at SBSTA 24 (FCCC/SBSTA/2005/10, para. 119). The secretariat has received a submission from Brazil, Germany and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland on this matter. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, this submission is reproduced in
the language in which it was received and without formal editing