With the expansion of the Energy and Mining sector and the availability to the population and industry of energy products on a large scale, considerable efforts are needed to prevent the damaging of the environment and the quality of life in general.

In fact, the Energy and Mining sector attaches a great importance to issues related to the protection of the environment and public health. The integration of these concerns in the sector policy is based on the facet ''energy and mines policy'' of the governmental programme.

This resulted in the implementation of measures essentially linked to the following objectives:

• The promotion and the development of the use of least polluting fossil fuels (natural gas, LPG, unleaded gasoline);
• The promotion of energy savings;
• The depollution and the rehabilitation of polluted sites;
• The development of renewable energies;
• The development of the of environmental management at the level of the Energy and Mining sector;

The sector reforms in the process of implementation assign an important place to the environment; special provisions are thus introduced by the new laws on Mining and Electricity. The carrying out of impact studies on environment; the implementation of environment management plans and the auditing on the complexes with respect to environment are made obligatory by the sector and also under its responsibility.

The integration of the environment protection and the sustainable development within the formulation of the policy, planning and management is imperative to the sector given the necessity of protecting natural habitats, public health and also the commitment of the country relative to the international legal instruments and to different agreements and conventions entered into by our country.

Therefore, a particular interest is given to the Outline Convention of the United Nations on the climate change and the process of enforcement of the Kyoto Protocol.