- Adopting a comprehensive policy for the solid waste sector, focusing on the principle of waste recovery – materials and energy, and on partnership in decision-making.
- Making a qualitative leap in the issue of waste and hazardous materials management, through the environmental disposal of hundreds of tons of these wastes resulting from the July 2006 war, and of hazardous materials used in a number of sectors.
- Tax and customs stimulus for environmentally friendly activities.
- Reconciling industrial growth with environmental protection through 3 model experiments that bear the cost, which exceeded $3 million, to the owners of these factories.
- Equipping the Ministry of Environment to undertake a sound environmental follow-up on the oil exploration process.
- Mobilizing the financial resources necessary to protect the rivers from pollution, starting with the Litani Basin and Lake Qaraoun, and ending with other basins.
- Adopting the national strategy for biological diversity to stop or reverse the random urban sprawl phenomenon and preserve mountain peaks, natural areas, green spaces, agricultural lands and beaches.
- Opening the wild hunting season for the first time since 1996, which allowed on one hand hunting in an organized and sustainable manner, and on the other hand secured incomes exceeding 10% of the budget of the Ministry of Environment.
- Preparing a sustainable management policy for an integrated management of sand pits, quarries and crushers sector.
- Adopting the air quality protection law and completing it on the ground by equipping a complete national network to monitor air quality.
- Improving environmental communication between the various parties through guidebooks and seminars covering several sectors.
- Conducting a competition to hire environmental control officers.
- Fulfilling Lebanon’s obligations towards a large number of international environmental agreements that had been concluded, specifically those related to combating climate change, protecting the ozone layer, and others.
- Establishing the necessary framework to reduce the environmental impact of the Syrian displacement crisis, and stressing in all international forums on the fact that any international environmental commitment undertaken by the Lebanese state requires a sound conclusion to this crisis.
