At its 5th plenary meeting, on 11 November 1998, the Conference of the Parties took note of the following conclusions on this subject, adopted by the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) at its ninth session:1

(a) The SBSTA noted the information provided by Brazil on recent scientific activities and on the workshop to be organized regarding the proposal presented by Brazil in documentFCCC/AGBM/1997/MISC.I/Add.3. The SBSTA also noted the potential contribution of other relevant analyses to increase understanding of the methodological and scientific aspects of this proposal. The SBSTA invited the delegation of Brazil to inform the SBSTA at its tenth session of the results of its workshop and provide it with other relevant information;

(b) The SBSTA decided to further consider at its tenth session the scientific and methodological aspects of the proposal by Brazil.

The Conference of the Parties requested the SBSTA to inform it, at its fifth session, of any relevant information, taking into account the results of ongoing scientific activities and information from a workshop to be organized by Brazil on that issue (see Part One, section IV H, para. 73 of the present report).

1  See FCCC/SBSTA/1998/9, para . 29.