The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its nineteenth session, completed its work under the Third Assessment Report (TAR) agenda item. Two new agenda items are to be initiated at its twentieth session, for regular consideration by the SBSTA, as follows: (a) Scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to, climate change; (b) Scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of mitigation.The SBSTA, at its nineteenth session, noted that the themes of, inter alia, sustainable development, opportunities and solutions, and vulnerability and risk, are relevant for consideration under the two new agenda items. The SBSTA invited Parties to submit to the secretariat, by 15 March 2004, their views on these themes, and other information relating to these agenda items, for compilation into miscellaneous documents. The secretariat has received eight such submissions. Almost all submissions include views relating both to impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to, climate change, and to mitigation;
therefore submissions on both agenda items are included in a single miscellaneous document. Document FCCC/SBSTA/2004/MISC.7 is therefore cancelled. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, these submissions are attached and reproduced in the language in which they were received and without formal editing