Views on issues related to the research dialogue, including possible ways to enhance its effectiveness and the workshop
to be held in conjunction with SBSTA 34. Submissions from Parties.
The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its thirtysecond session, agreed that the research dialogue between Parties and regional and international climate change research programmes and organizations should be continued at SBSTA 34 and beyond (FCCC/SBSTA/2010/6, para. 47). It also noted the need to further enhance interaction between the science and policy communities by strengthening the research dialogue (FCCC/SBSTA/2010/6, para. 48). At the same session, the SBSTA invited Parties to provide to the secretariat their views on: (a) Possible ways to enhance the effectiveness of the research dialogue in the future, as referred to in document FCCC/SBSTA/2010/6, paragraphs 48 (a–d); (b) The workshop to be held in conjunction with SBSTA 34 to give further indepth consideration to issues addressed in the research dialogue, as referred to in document FCCC/SBSTA/2010/6, paragraph 49 (a); (c) Ways to make information from research programmes and organizations available on the UNFCCC website, as referred to in document FCCC/SBSTA/2010/6, paragraph 49 (b). The SBSTA further requested the secretariat to make these views available as a miscellaneous document by SBSTA 33 (FCCC/SBSTA/2010/6, para.50)./ The secretariat has received two 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