Developments in research activities relevant to the needs of the Convention. Submissions from regional and international climate change research programmes and organizations.
The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its twenty-sixth session, invited relevant regional and international climate change research programmes and organizations to regularly inform the SBSTA of developments in research activities relevant to the needs of the Convention (FCCC/SBSTA/2007/4, para. 47). At its twenty-eighth session, the SBSTA invited the research programmes and organizations to continue to provide information pertaining to the activities outlined in document FCCC/SBSTA/2007/4, paragraph 47 (a–f) at the thirtieth and subsequent sessions of the SBSTA (FCCC/SBSTA/2008/6, para. 103). The secretariat has received eight submissions from relevant research programmes and
organizations. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, these submissions are contained in this document and reproduced in the language in which they were received and without formal editing