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Singapore has put in place policies to reduce its Greenhouse Gas Emissions by switching from fuel oil to natural gas. Today, about 95% of Singapore's electricity is generated from natural gas. To meet the longer term demand for natural gas, Singapore has put in place a Competitive Licensing Framework to allow flexibility in importing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) supplies on a tranche-by-tranche basis. This allows suppliers to bid in an open and competitive process to supply the next tranche of LNG to Singapore.

A large proportion of the electricity consumed in Madagascar comes from hydroelectric stations, and the rest from thermal stations. (...)

Over the past years, Malaysia has been involved as a third party in several trade dispute settlement cases that have a bearing on Malaysia’s trade interests. These include packaging requirement for tobacco products, anti-dumping measures on bio-diesel and fatty alcohol, and incentives on solar cells and modules.

The National Trade Policy charges Government with the primary role of eliminating barriers to trade and providing an enabling environment in which the private sector can thrive, and build capacity to produce quality goods and services competitively, reliably, and on a sustainable basis

The CEMAC geospatial information system programme (programme 19) is intended to equip CEMAC with modern tools for land-use and environmental management. It provides for the establishment of a supranational cartographic system, based on georeferencing standards common to all the players (member States and CEMAC). Thus, it will be possible, using the same sets of digital maps, to perform cross-analyses in order better to preserve the environment , increase surveillance of the strategic areas and optimize physical planning. A regional unit of three or four experts will be set up within the CEMAC Commission to design and implement this project.

The Government's ambition for the coming five years is to promote this sector so as to develop its potential for creating jobs and combating poverty, while observing the principles of sustainable development

Brazil also considers bioenergy, including biofuels, an indispensable tool for the expansion and diversification of the energy matrix. Nowadays, biomass electricity – generated mostly from sugarcane processing plants – accounts for about 8% of Brazil’s total energy consumption. By 2021, biomass and wind generation are expected to supply 16% of the country's energy needs. In the transportation sector, the use of ethanol and biodiesel plays a key role in the pursuit of sustainable development, climate change mitigation and energy security. The Brazilian case shows that the long term and large scale sustainable production and use of biofuels are possible, and Brazil continues to work towards the creation of an international market for biofuels.

In late June 2009 the new Act on Forest Reproductive Materials was adopted, regulating all the aspects of placing the forest reproduction materials on the market in the way equal to the practice in the EU

Guinea is party to several regional agreements on electricity, in particular:
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• the Senegal River Basin Development Organization (OMVS) and the Gambia River Basin Development Organization (OMVG) conventions, and additional instruments that organize the joint hydropower exploitation of the Senegal and Gambia rivers;
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• Sustainable energy for all (SE4ALL).

The United States and ASEAN agreed to proceed with work on, inter alia, dialogues on trade and environment