The "Rio + 20: National Report on Sustainable Development" shows the successes achieved so far by Bangladesh since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and outlines the future directions and challenges in relation to carrying the process forward in future. The Report underlines Bangladesh commitment to pursuing sustainable development in all its aspects: It deals with economic, social and environmental facets of sustainability. In particular, the section on "Progress During Past 20 years (1992-2012) and Future Directions" addresses Energy Security.

The Policy Guidelines for Enhancement of Private Participation in the Power Sector in 2008 support the objective of the GoB to augment generation capacity to meet existing power shortage and demand-growth in future years. GoB desires to promote further private participation in the power sector and these guidelines serve as a base to achieve this goal. In particular, they address: Commercial Power Plants; PPP for Old and Inefficient Power Plants; PPP for Joint Venture Power Plants; Wheeling of Power; Qualification of Investors; Power Purchase, Fuel Supply and Land Lease/Transfer by GoB; Licensing/ Approval/ Clearance; GoB Support and Fiscal Incentives.---Note: PSPGP: Private Sector Power Generation Policy, 1996.

The Policy Guidelines for Power Purchase from Captive Power Plant express the intent of the Government of Bangladesh to reduce the gap between supply and demand for electricity, and to make best use of energy resources. In particular, the GOB declares following Guidelines to (a) harness the surplus capacity of captive power plants, and (b) permit electric utilities to purchase electricity from captive power plants. The document is divided in the following sections: Objective; Definitions; Opening of the Power Market to CPPs; Approvals and License Requirement; Tariff for Power Purchase from Captive Power Plant; Power Off-take; Transmission Charges; Conditions of Supply; Period of Supply; Agreement; Custom Duty, Vat and Income Tax; Miscellaneous; Provisional Power Purchase Agreement .

The Act outlines the Amendments made to the original Building Control Act, with specific provisions regarding the protocol around major energy use change to buildings and deviations from the approved building design, as well as regulations around energy audits of building cooling systems.

The Bangladesh Private Sector Infrastructure Guidelines, provide principles for private sector infrastructures. It addresses: The need for private sector infrastructure guidelines; Development of private infrastructure projects; Institutional Framework; Feasibility study; Commercial considerations in a private infrastructure project; Tender and award process. Eventually specific annexes provide for: A: Project progress monitoring by stages; B: Organisation structure of Private Infrastructure Committee; C: Segregation of public and private infrastructure projects in stage zero; D: Flow-chart for private infrastructure projects; E: Types of private infrastructure projects; F: Processing of unsolicited proposals.

The Power Pricing Framework was approved by the Government in January 2004. It proposes Pricing Principles to begin codifying the process and principles of tariff adjustment and to phase out prevailing distortions in tariff structure. The principles include: The average end-user electricity tariff; GOB subsidies and incentives; Tariffs revision; Differentiated Rates. The proposed power price adjustments will be implemented on September 1, 2003.

An Act to consolidate the law relating to buildings, and for matters connected therewith; including the outline of protocol around energy use change of a building, and the requirements for energy audits on cooling systems in buildings.

The present Law establishes a full regulatory framework for gas and gas supply in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Multifaceted measures envisaged by the policy aim to ensure efficient, reliable and safe operation of the unified gas supply system.

The policy establishes frameworks for the regulation of natural monopolies in the Republic of Kazakhstan and aims – through restraining monopolistic activities and balancing the interests of all market actors – to ensure sustainability and competitiveness of the national economy. The policy concentrates on the following areas: 1) transportation of oil and oil derivatives via trunk pipelines, 2) storage and transportation of gas via trunk or distribution pipelines, operation of natural gas pipelines, 3) power transmission, distribution and dispatch, 4) heat generation, transmission and distribution, 5) railway system and railway services under concession agreements, 6) telecommunication services, 7) water and sewage sectors. Among issues specifically addressed by the Law is the need to ensure the balance of production and consumption in power / heat generation. Dimensions of regulation include: tariff setting, standardization / technical regulation, and investment incentives. The policy seeks to pursue market decentralization through a variety of instruments. --- The Law aims to put in place appropriate financial incentives for improving current market environment. The focus is made on measures to support greater presence of financial investors in natural monopoly markets. Considerable attention in this respect is given to the legal procedure for launching investment programs in natural monopoly industries.