United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy

A/RES/33/148View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1979.

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4 versions · 1979–1982

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/36/193

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1982	A/RES/36/193	United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy	559	31%Compare
1981	A/RES/35/204	United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy	436	23%Compare
1980	A/RES/34/190	United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy	925	20%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/148	United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy	1,104	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Conferences Energy Technology Information Transfer Renewable Energy Sources

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Decides to convene an international conference on new and renewable sources of energy in 1981 under the auspices of the United Nations;

Decides further that the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy should have the objective of elaborating measures for concerted action designed to promote the development and utilization of new and renewable sources of energy, with a view to contributing to meeting future over-all energy requirements, especially those of the developing countries, in particular in the context of efforts aimed at accelerating the development of the developing countries;

Defines the scope of the Conference as confined to the area of such new and renewable sources of energy as solar, geothermal and wind power, tidal power, wave power and thermal gradient of the sea, biomass conversion, fuel-wood, charcoal, peat, energy from draught animals, oil shale, tar sands and hydropower;

Decides also that, in the light of the foregoing and with a view to formulating recommendations for concrete action, the Conference should concentrate, inter a/ia, on the following:

Analysis of the state of technology related to new and renewable sources of energy;

( b) Identification of the potential, particularly in the developing countries, for utilization of new and renewable sources of energy;

Assessment of the economic viability of the use of new and renewable sources of energy in the light of the technologies now available and those being developed;

122 E/1978/68.

Identification of measures for promoting, particularly in the developing countries, development of the technology required for exploration, development, exploitation and utilization of new and renewable sources of energy, taking into account the relevant results of the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development;

Identification of the measures necessary for ( e) the transfer to developing countries of the relevant technologies available, taking into account the results of negotiations relating to the transfer of technology in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development and elsewhere;

Promotion of adequate information flows re- (f) garding all aspects of new and renewable sources of energy, especially to the developing countries, taking duly into account their special conditions and requirements;

Question of financing the activities necessary for promoting the identification, development, exploitation and utilization of new and renewable sources of energy;

Requests the Secretary-General, after consultations with Member States, to appoint a secretarygeneral of the Conference before the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly;

Further requests the Secretary-General to entrust the Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation with the responsibility of providing over-all guidance, orientation and co-ordination of the contributions from the relevant secretariats of the United Nations system to the preparations for the Conference;

Invites the organs, organizations and agencies of the United Nations system concerned, including the regional commissions, the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank, to co-operate

fully in the preparations for the Conference;

Decides to establish, at its thirty-fourth session, an intergovernmental preparatory committee for the Conference and to decide, at that session, on the composition of the committee;

Requests the Secretary-General to initiate the process of preparations for the Conference on the basis of paragraphs 2 to 4 above, through the preparation of studies by the relevant secretariats of the United Nations system and by meetings of technical panels of experts nominated by Governments and appointed by the Secretary-General on the basis of equitable geographical distribution and their knowledge of the subject, for submission to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session and to the preparatory committee;

Invites the technical panels of experts to give appropriate consideration to the technical inputs within the scope of the Conference that might be made by the relevant intergovernmental organizations and nongovernmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council;

Decides to consider, at its thirty-fourth session,

further preparations for the Conference under a separate agenda item entitled "United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy", in the light of a progress report on the preparations for the Conference, to be submitted by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1979, as well as the studies requested in paragraph 9 above.

124 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report and 121 Official Records of the General Assemh/y, Thirty-third

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