ABSTRACT
Morocco lacks a domestic supply of traditional fossil fuels to meet the country’s energy needs, relying on imports to fuel the country. The country had to improve the existing legislation, permit independent power producers, reduce its reliance on imports, adopt improved technologies to enhance efficiency and mitigate the effects to the environment, promote conservation strategies, and increase the capacity of power generation. Morocco was identified by the 4th Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as already affected by and at risk of increases in average temperatures, droughts, heat waves, changing rainfall patterns, sea-level rise, and floods. Morocco made its first major commitment to renewable energy in June 1992 when it signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and later ratified the agreement in December 1995.
