The Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), at its twenty-eighth session, recommended that the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) give attention, in particular, to the issues listed in decision 4/CMP.3, paragraph 6, and further recommended that the CMP take appropriate action at its fourth session. The SBI further invited Parties to submit to the secretariat, by 19 September 2008, for compilation and synthesis, their views on how the current institutional arrangements, governance, rules and procedures of the clean development mechanism and joint implementation may be improved in the first commitment period in order to enhance their functioning and effectiveness (FCCC/SBI/2008/8, para. 109 (d) (iii)). The secretariat has received five 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. The secretariat has also received submissions from accredited non-governmental organizations. In line with established practice, the secretariat has posted these submission on the UNFCCC website at