At its thirteenth session, the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice took note of the information contained in a discussion note prepared by the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). It also took note of the decisions of the fifth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity relating to forest biodiversity and marine and coastal biodiversity, particularly coral reefs, and their links to the UNFCCC. The SBSTA agreed to consider this matter in more detail at its fourteenth session. It invited Parties to submit their views on the issues identified in the discussion note prepared by the Executive Secretary of the CBD to the UNFCCC secretariat no later than 1 March 2001, for compilation into a miscellaneous document (FCCC/SBSTA/2000/14, para. 60). As at 17 April 2001, the secretariat has eceived four 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