The Conference of the Parties, at its seventeenth session, requested Parties and observer organizations to submit by 28 February 2012 their views on options and ways for further increasing the level of ambition (decision 1/CP.17, para. 8). The secretariat has received two such submissions from one intergovernmental organization. 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 will continue to post on the UNFCCC website any submissions received after the issuance of the present document. The 16 submissions received from Parties are contained in document FCCC/ADP/2012/MISC.1 and have been posted on the UNFCCC website. In line with established practice, submissions received from non-governmental organizations have been posted on the UNFCCC website