The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its thirtysecond session, invited Parties and relevant organizations to submit to the secretariat, by 16 August 2010, views and information on the effectiveness of the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in fulfilling its objective, expected outcome, scope of work and modalities, as set out in the annex to decision 2/CP.11 (FCCC/SBSTA/2010/6, para. 20). The SBSTA requested the secretariat to compile these submissions into a miscellaneous document to be made available by SBSTA 33. The secretariat has received 18 such submissions. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, the nine submissions received from Parties, the two submissions from United Nations organizations and the one submission from an intergovernmental organization are contained in this document and reproduced in the languages in which they were received and without formal editing. In line with established practice, the six submissions from non-governmental organizations have been posted on the UNFCCC website at