World Solar Programme 1996-2005

A/RES/55/205View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 95f Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy, including the implementation of the World Solar Programme 1996-2005, published in 2001.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1998–2001

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2001	A/RES/55/205	World Solar Programme 1996-2005	1,155	35%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/215	World Solar Programme 1996-2005	1,168	18%Compare
1998	A/RES/53/7	World Solar Programme 1996-2005	564	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

14 subjects

Consultations Coordination Within UN System Diffusion of Innovations Energy Consumption Energy Resources Development Financing Programme Implementation Renewable Energy Sources Report Preparation Research and Development Resources Mobilization Solar Energy Sustainable Energy Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the promotion of new and renewable sources of energy, including the implementation of the World Solar Programmme 1996–2005;⁷

⁷A/55/91.

Notes with appreciation the role that the World Solar Commission continues to play in the mobilization of international support and assistance for the implementation of many of the national high-priority projects on renewable sources of energy included in the World Solar Programme 1996–2005, many of which are being executed with national funding;

Notes that although significant financial support has been provided by some developed countries that are Members of the United Nations and some intergovernmental organizations, within and outside the United Nations system, in the implementation of the World Solar Programme 1996–2005, more action still needs to be taken in this regard;

Invites the international community to support, as appropriate, including by providing financial resources, the efforts of developing countries to move towards sustainable patterns of energy production and consumption;

Recognizes that rural energy services, including their financing, should be designed to maximize local ownership, as appropriate;

Reiterates its call upon all relevant funding institutions and bilateral and multilateral donors, as well as regional funding institutions and non-governmental organizations, to support, as appropriate, the efforts being made for the development of the renewable energy sector in developing countries on the basis of environment-friendly, renewable sources of energy of demonstrated viability, while taking fully into account the development structure of energy-based economies of developing countries, and to assist in the attainment of the levels of investment necessary to expand energy supplies beyond urban areas;

Encourages the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to promote the mobilization of adequate technical assistance and funding and to enhance the effectiveness and the full utilization of existing international funds for the effective implementation of national and regional high-priority projects in the area of renewable sources of energy;

Emphasizes the need to intensify research and development in support of sustainable energy development, which will require increased commitment on the part of all stakeholders, including Governments and the private sector, to deploy financial and manpower resources for accelerating research efforts;

Recognizes that the wider use of available renewable energy technologies requires the diffusion of available technologies on a global scale, including through North-South and South-South cooperation;

Takes note of the decision of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization regarding the contribution of the Global Renewable Energy Education and Training Programme 1996–2005 in attaining the objective of sustainable development,5 and encourages the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in this context, to mobilize resources, both human and financial, as mandated, to ensure the effective implementation of the Programme and make efforts to promote public awareness in all Member States in this regard, with the support of international, regional and national institutions, both public and private;

Invites the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to make effective the implementation of the Global Renewable Energy Education and Training Programme 1996–2005 in the different regions and to strengthen the implementation of its African chapter;

Encourages the Ad Hoc Inter-Agency Task Force on Energy to continue its efforts to ensure that the work of the World Solar Programme 1996–2005 is fully integrated into the mainstream of the efforts of the United Nations system to achieve the objectives of sustainable development and to coordinate the contributions of all relevant organizations of the United Nations system to the consideration of the theme of energy by the Commission on Sustainable Development at its ninth session, to be held in 2001, and at the ten-year review of progress achieved in the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, to be held in 2002;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme, the Global Environment Facility, the United Nations Environment Programme and other relevant organizations, to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session a report on concrete action being taken for the promotion of new and renewable sources of energy, including the effective implementation of, and mobilization of resources for, the World Solar Programme 1996–2005;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session, under the item entitled “Environment and sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy, including the implementation of the World Solar Programme 1996–2005”.

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