At its 5th plenary meeting, on 5 December 1997, the Conference of the Parties decided that the proposal presented by Brazil in document FCCC/AGBM/1997/MISC.1/Add.3 should be referred to the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice for its advice regarding the methodological and scientific aspects. It authorized the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice to seek inputs, as appropriate, from its roster of experts and from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and requested it to make its advice available to the Conference of the Parties at its fourth session (see Part One, section III F, para. 69 of the present report).