Views from Parties and relevant organizations on the following areas of the work programme in accordance with decision 8/CP.17, paragraph 1: area (a), sharing of information and expertise, including reporting and promoting understanding of positive and negative impacts of response measures; area (f), relevant aspects relating to the implementation of decisions 1/CP.10, 1/CP.13 and 1/CP.16 and Article 2, paragraph 3, and Article 3, paragraph 14, of the Kyoto Protocol; area (h), building collective and individual learning towards a transition to a low greenhouse gas emitting society. Submissions from Parties and relevant organizations.
The Conference of the Parties (COP), at its sixteenth session, decided to provide a forum on the impact of the implementation of response measures, and to that end requested the Chairs of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) to convene such a forum at the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth sessions of these bodies, with the objective of developing a work programme under the subsidiary bodies to address these impacts, with a view to adopting, at the seventeenth session of the COP, modalities for the operationalization of the work programme and a possible forum on response measures. The SBSTA and the SBI, at their thirty-sixth sessions, invited Parties and relevant organizations to submit to the secretariat, by 17 September 2012, their views for consideration by the SBSTA and the SBI at their thirty-seventh sessions. The secretariat has received four such submissions from Parties. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, these submissions are attached and reproduced in the languages in which they were received and without formal editing