The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its sixteenth session, agreed that in general the Third Assessment Report (TAR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should be used routinely as a reference for deliberations on agenda items of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and its subsidiary bodies.
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