The Conference of the Parties (COP), by its decision 3/CP.12, invited Parties to submit to the secretariat, by 17 August 2007, their views and recommendations on the funding available to them in the climate change focal area, for compilation by the secretariat for consideration and appropriate action at the COP at its thirteenth session and for transmission through the secretariat to the Council of the Global Environment Facility. The secretariat has received six such submissions. 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