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In order to streamline the maritime policy of the country, a Shipping Policy-2000 was promulgated by the Government in order to ensure maritime safety, security, prevention of marine pollution, protection of the marine environment and achieving efficient shipping and efficient port management

There are a number of national and regional programmes of aid assistance related to, inter alia, agriculture and natural resources, environmental sustainability, climate change, clean energy and water and sanitation

Specific objectives of the Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community (EAC) include promoting sustainable growth and equitable development for its members, including rational use of the region's natural resources and protection of the environment

Prohibited imports under the Second Schedule to the EAC Customs Management Act, include hazardous wastes and their disposal, used tyres, and various agricultural and industrial chemicals

The Second Schedule requires an import permit for 31 product groups, including worked and unworked ivory, ozone-depleting substances, genetically modified products, non-indigenous species of fish, and endangered species of wild flora and fauna in accordance with CITES

According to the East Africa Standardization, Quality Assurance, Metrology and Testing Act (SQMT) Act 2006, development of standards and technical regulations in the EAC should, among other things, seek to respond to regulatory needs, including environment considerations

Regulations regarding production and trade in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are still at an early stagem with Kenya being the only EAC country with a full GMO-related institutional framework

Part B of the Third Schedule of the EAC Customs Management Act covers products requiring an authorization, including waste and scrap of ferrous cast iron, timber from wood grown in EAC member states, fresh unprocessed fish (Nile perch and tilapia), cloves, wood charcoal, used automobile batteries, lead scrap, crude and refined lead, and all forms of scrap metal

On 3 April 2006, EAC countries signed a Regional Protocol on Environment and Natural Resources Management, which aims to coordinate member states' actions to prevent environmental degradation through the establishment of its Sectoral Committee, and six experts working groups on terrestrial ecosystems; aquatic ecosystems; policy, legal and institutional framework; pollution issues; bio-safety; and climate change

Some of the integration programmes in the EAC include Geo-Thermal Energy Project and Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project and are related, inter alia, to shared water resources, climate change adaptation, and protection of biodiversity