The Conference of the Parties, at its seventeenth session, invited Parties and admitted observer organizations to submit to the secretariat, by 5 March 2012, their views on the matters referred to in paragraphs 79 and 80 of decision 2/CP.17, including their experiences, positive and negative, with existing approaches and mechanisms as well as lessons learned (decision 2/CP.17, para. 81). The secretariat has received 12 such submissions from Parties. 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