UNITED NATIONS MAR 2 51981 ________________________ __,....;_.......4-L-'-__________ _ ol-07559 United Nations Conte'r~nce, .CLLECr r)\f -,., •~" ~ ,i on New and Renewable Sources of Energy Nairobi, Kenya 10-21 August 1981 PREPARATIONS AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL Comprehensive reports on the activities of the regional commissions Note by the Secretary-General Distr. GENERAL A/CONF.100/7 19 March 1981 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH I ... A/C0HF .100 /7 English Page 2 1. The Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable So~rces of Energy, at its second session, adopted decision 7 (II) concernints preparatory work for the Conference. In parar,raph ( e) of that decisic: I the Preparatory Committee recommended that "all relevant organs, organizations anc'l bodies of the United nations should sub:rni t comprehensive reports on their activities in the field of new and renewable sources of enerp,y, includilli! the provision of technical assistance to developing countries, in accordr.nce with Assembly resolution 33/148, in time for the third session of the Preparatory CornJnittee;". In paragraph (f), the Preparatory CoP11T1ittee further recommended 11that the re1:,ional commissions should strenp;then their participation in the preparatory process for the Conference, and, inter aJ.ia, assist and encourage i:: I organizing national, regional and interregional sewinars for detailec'l discussion,, and that they should, under the over-all co-ordination of the Director-General for Development and International EconoITJ.ic Co-operation submit rerional papers and a comp~ehensi ve renort on their preparation; for the Conference in time for the third session of the Committee". c. 'i'he request for these reports was discussed at an interagency meeting (Geneva, Cctober 1980). Fhile recognizing that a great deal of information was already available, inter alia, through the cross-organizational programme analyse, and the report submitted to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session (A/35 /531), the meeting agreed that agencies, organizations and bodies of the 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing a United Nations conference on new and renewable sources of energy, with a focus on preparing for the conference by gathering information from various regional commissions and organizations. The language used is technical and focused on energy production and sustainability, suggesting that the topic is related to natural resources and the environment.

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Natural resources and environment