Report of the Committee on the Development and Utilization of New and Renewable Sources of Energy

A/RES/43/192View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 82d New and renewable sources of energy, published in 1989.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1987–1991

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/45/208

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1991	A/RES/45/208	Report of the Committee on the Development and Utilization of New and Renewable Sources of Energy	—	—
1989	A/RES/43/192	Report of the Committee on the Development and Utilization of New and Renewable Sources of Energy	493	—
1987	A/RES/41/170	Report of the Committee on the Development and Utilization of New and Renewable Sources of Energy	—	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Budget Contributions Conferences Coordination Within UN System Information Systems Inter-Agency Cooperation Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Recommendations Renewable Energy Sources Resolutions and Decisions Resources Mobilization

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Committee on the Development and Utilization of New and Renewable Sources of Energy on its fourth session49 and endorses the resolutions and decision contained therein;

Reaffirms the importance of the Nairobi Programme of Action for the Development and Utilization of New and Renewable Sources of Energy50 as the basic framework for action in that field and calls for its speedy and full implementation;

Urges the States members of the Committee, at its fifth session, to consider further measures to strengthen the activities of the United Nations in this field, particularly to enable the Committee to assure full and more effective implementation of the Nairobi Programme of Action;

Invites interested States to inform the Committee, at its fifth session, oftheir ongoing technical and scientific activities and/or evaluations with regard to selected substantive themes, and invites interested States, organizations of the United Nations system and other interested organizations to convene technical and scientific meetings, related to the substantive themes, that would contribute to the examination of such themes in depth, and to inform the Committee, also at its fifth session, of the results of those meetings;

Calls upon the international community to implement effectively the proposals contained in the conclusions and recommendations of the Colloquium of Highlevel Experts on New and Renewable Sources of Energy, held at Castelgandolfo, Italy, in 1987, as contained in paragraph 2 of resolution 2 (IV) of 8 April 1988 of the Committee,51 which are aimed at giving new ímpetus to the implementation of the Nairobi Programme of Action, and requests the Secretary-General to convene an ad hoc panel of experts to prepare specific recommendations regarding information systems on new and renewable sources of energy;

Reiterates the need to pursue actively ways and means of mobilizing adequate additional financial resources commensurate with the needs of developing countries in the field of new and renewable sources of energy and emphasizes the need to utilize existing channels fully, including the United Nations Trust Fund for New and Renewable Sources of Energy, and urges donor countries to continue voluntary contributions to that Fund;

Reaffirms the importance of increasing inter-agency co-operation within the United Nations system, as well as co-ordination of development activities for new and renewable sources of energy at ali levels.

49 Officia/ Records of the General Assembly. Forty-third Session. Suf¡1ement No. 36 (A/43/36).

Report of the United Nations Conference on New and Renewab/e Sources of Energy, Nairobi, 10-2 I Augusr 1981 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.81.1.24), chap. I, sect. A.

51 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-third Session, Supplement No. 36 (A/43/36), annex.

52 A/43/476 and Corr. 1

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