The purpose of this Act is to ensure that all citizens enjoy a healthy and pleasant life by preventing environmental pollution and environmental damage and by managing and preserving the environment in an appropriate and sustainable manner through defining the rights and duties of citizens and the obligations of the State with regard to environmental preservation and determining the fundamental matters for environmental policies.

The purpose of this Act is to establish a resource recycling system for the efficient use of resources and contribute to environmental conservation and the sound growth of the national economy by placing restrictions on the use of hazardous substances, encouraging manufacturers to produce products readily recyclable, and facilitating the optimum recycling of wastes thereof to ensure that recycling of electrical and electronic equipment, as well as vehicles, can be promoted appropriately.

The purpose of this Act is to promote the development of the national economy by laying down the foundation necessary for low carbon, green growth and by utilizing green technology and green industries as new engines for growth, so as to pursue the harmonized development of the economy and environment and to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of every citizen and the take-off to a mature, top-class, advanced country that shall fulfill its responsibility in international society through the realization of a low-carbon society.

Based on the revised Japan Revitalization Strategy, the 2014 Automobile Industry Strategy presents Japan’s comprehensive direction for the automobile industry, consisting of measures toward the development of advanced domestic markets, including actions to disseminate next-generation vehicles, as well as toward overseas business expansion, with an analysis of the challenges that the industry may face in the mid to long term.

The Government’s electric vehicles programme was launched in May 2016. It has a target of doubling the number of electric vehicles on New Zealand roads every year until they make up 2% of our light vehicle fleet (around 64,000 cars by 2021). The package aims to address barriers to the uptake of electric vehicles, including the limited supply of models in New Zealand, lack of awareness and misconceptions about electric vehicles, and a lack of widespread public charging infrastructure.

The Guidelines address Large Scale Solar Power Plants For Connection to the Transmission and Distribution Electricity Networks and are not applicable to large scale solar power plant which has been given the right through Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA) to develop the plant under feed in tariff scheme. The scope of the Guidelines is limited to LSS connected to Transmission Network in Peninsular Malaysia.

The Guidelines are divided into the following parts: The first regulatory implementation guideline (RIG) include: definition of business entity; specification of functions of each business entity; specification of the flow of funds; The RIG2 aims to define the tariff setting framework for each business entity (price or revenue regulation, regulatory term). The third one's purpose is to: Establish revenue requirement principles for each business entity (building block model) & establish incentive framework: clear principles for treating variances in forecasts (both cost and consumption). The RIG4 is the outline of the guidelines the Commission will adopt in determining the appropriate weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for the TNB business entities. RIG5 serves to establish detail operating cost, capital cost, asset and consumption templates for each business entity. RIG6 RIG 6 aims to provide guidelines to establish an incentive framework for operational performance for the TNB business entities. The objective of RIG 7 is to provide guidelines to establish cost allocation principles for allocating joint costs incurred by TNB in supplying electricity to customers in Malaysia between the various TNB business entities. The objective of RIG 8 is to provide guidelines to establish an Imbalance Cost Pass-Through mechanism to enable the recovery of actual fuel related and other generation specific costs. RIG 9 aims to: · set out the principles to be followed by TNB when proposing prices; and to establish the annual price approval process. The objective of RIG 10 is to set out the framework for the development of regulatory accounts for each of TNB’s regulated business entities. The objective of RIG 11 is to outline the regulatory review process to be followed for the first regulatory period.

National Sustainable Development Strategy 2010-21 (NSDS) was formulated to meet the challenges of economic, social and environmental sustainability of the economy in order to make Bangladesh reach the status of middle-income country by 2021. The vision of the NSDS is “Achieving a happy, prosperous and enlightened Bangladesh which is free from hunger, poverty, inequality, illiteracy, and corruption and belongs completely to its citizens and maintains a healthy environment”. Five Strategic Priority Areas were identified along with three cross-cutting areas with a view to achieving its stated vision and addressing long-term sustainability issue of productive resources. The strategic priority areas include sustained economic growth, development of priority sectors, social security and protection, environment, natural resources and disaster management. The three cross-cutting issues that will support the sustainable development of priority areas include disaster risk reduction and climate, good governance and gender.

The Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP) was issued in 2009 and is an updated and revised version of the 2008 BCCSAP to tackle climate change in view of the COP 2009. This Plan incorporates the Vision 2021 and includes the ambition for a substantial eradication of poverty by 2021. The Plan will remain a living document and will be updated and changed if required in the future. The energy-relevant section regards mitigation and low-carbon development which are more and more important as the country develops and the energy demand increases.