The Conference of the Parties, at its seventeenth session, invited Parties and admitted observer organizations to submit to the secretariat, by 5 March 2012, their views on the matters referred to in paragraphs 83 and 84 of decision 2/CP.17, including their experiences, positive and negative, with existing approaches and mechanisms as well as lessons learned (decision 2/CP.17, para. 85). The secretariat has received 20 such submissions from admitted observer organizations (see the annex). In line with established practice, the submissions from intergovernmental organizations and the submissions from non-governmental organizations have been posted on the UNFCCC website in the language in which they were received and without formal editing