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Reportedly, while the recent issue of new legal instruments (see below) demonstrates efforts to draft stricter provisions on exploiting and preserving mineral resources, they imply that investors in the mining sector could face greater regulatory obstacles.

The Government's policy in this sector targets comprehensive coverage of energy demand throughout the country under the best possible conditions and is sought to be achieved through a continuation of the campaign to promote new and renewable forms of energy, including measures were taken by the government for the partial solution of energy problems through the introduction of new equipment (thermal power stations and wells)

(…) Energy subsidization for all consumers remains a major and long standing fiscal, budgetary, developmental, environmental, and thereby political issue. (…)

Notwithstanding some areas of medium-term weaknesses, overall growth is forecast to gradually strengthen over the next few years in certain key sectors, including:
• A gradual pick-up in growth in agriculture and fisheries, following recent declines, and a medium-term stabilisation of forestry growth, following the end of sandalwood exports;

Air transport: an active EU impetus in the ICAO negotiations on the liberalization of ownership and on a global market-based approach to regulating green house gas emissions from aviation (on the latter point see also below);

From 2006 to 2009, China's chemical oxygen demand and sulphur dioxide emissions reduced by 9.66% and 13.14% respectively

(...) The Government has, inter alia, the following rights and duties: to implement the Constitution and the legislation; to submit draft laws; to issue decrees and resolutions on state administration, socio economic management, and management in the fields of science-technology, national resources, environment, (...)

Mexico regulates exports and imposes export duties in order to guarantee supplies or to protect human health, the environment, fauna, flora and the cultural heritage. (...)

Argentina considers that the G-20's initiatives should neither duplicate nor replace the work being done in other international forums dedicated to specific issues such as, for example, the UNFCCC, where climate change is concerned.

The EC has been including provisions and commitments on implementing social and environmental standards in its contractual bilateral agreements with the view to foster sustainable development.