The National Agenda was prepared in 2005 and launched in 2006 comprising a comprehensive political and socio-economic reform plan for the country until 2017. The National Agenda was based on extensive research and integrated inputs from key players and organizations from within and outside the government. The main goal of the National Agenda is to achieve consistent policies and ensure that they will not be subject to government change while taking into considerations the need to regularly develop and update these policies.

The National Agenda contained a special section on environmental sustainability within the chapter on infrastructure development. The chapter on infrastructure included recommendations on water and energy while the section on environmental sustainability focused on six issues: institutional arrangement, air pollution, waste management, biodiversity, land management and the marine environment. Following are the main recommendations contained in the environmental component of the National Agenda.

1- Water sector:

 The National Agenda has developed a host of initiatives to redress the current water situation, among which:

• Develop water supply and new resources, exploit unconventional resources, and enforce the Kingdom's water rights according to international agreements related to water sharing within a framework of regional cooperation.
• Improve efficiency of water distribution networks to decrease operational costs and non-revenue water.
• Restructure tariffs and progressively reduce subsidies.
• Develop and upgrade wastewater treatment facilities by using state-of-the-art technology and re-use treated water for agriculture and industry.
• Encourage involvement of the private sector in developing the water sector and creating investment-friendly environment.

 2- Sustainable land management and combating desertification:

•      Establish a monitoring system and use it efficiently
•  Adopt national sustainable land use plans and sustainable management of soil and water resources, with support from Remote Sensing and GIS systems
• Set up a long-term policy to combat desertification, and integrate this policy with the national policies for sustainable development
• Improve water use efficiency by adopting the most advanced technologies in irrigation systems, to minimize soil erosion, sedimentation and salinization
• Carry out afforestation and soil conservation measures in areas prone to erosion
• Establish other alternative livelihood measures that could provide incomes in drought prone areas
• Enhancing research for drought and saline tolerant crops, and seed production

3-    Biodiversity and Protected Areas:

• Improve management of natural reserves and develop a master plan for land use and ensure its implementation.
• Create a unit specially dedicated to awareness and involvement of Jordanians through Environmental education, training and community participation
• Closely monitor Human violations of Natural Reserves policies and Environmental Laws.
• Must put in place very strict regulations related to punishment of Natural Heritage Violations such as illegal hunting, forest fires, soil and water pollution, water over pumping, etc.

4-    Energy:

• Achieve security of oil derivatives supply.
•  Shift the energy fuel mix from oil to gas in power generation and energy-intensive industries.
• Achieve security of electricity supply.
• Evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of oil shale exploration in Jordan.
• Strengthen the role of the National Energy Research Center to develop the exploitation of new and renewable energy resources, promoting energy conservation and establish suitable regulatory frameworks to manage these resources.
• Promote the application of clean-technologies and the adoption of environmental management systems, e.g. ISO 14001, as vehicles for better environmental management
• Encourage and expand utilization of renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, and gas generation from solid waste sites.

5-    Marine Environment:

•  Integrate policies relating to the protection of the Red Sea and its environment in relevant development policies including the implementation of appropriate monitoring programmes for water and coral reefs.
• Establish monitoring programs on sea currents, seawater quality, phosphate fallout, alga growth and ship activities.
• Participate in regional and international programs for protection of marine environment in Aqaba

6-    Waste Management:

• Develop solid waste management policies, promote environmentally sound disposal sites, encourage recycling and minimize solid waste generation.
• Develop a hazardous and chemical waste institutional framework which includes knowledge dissemination mechanisms and information tracking, along with an enforcement regime, in order to ensure that hazardous and chemical waste is adequately stored, collected and disposed of.
• Improve medical waste segregation, transportation, storage and treatment. In order to support the implementation of effective management, the legislative framework should be updated and enforced.
• Reduce wastewater discharge outside the sewage system and increase wastewater treatment capacity.

7-    Air Pollution:

• Strengthen mechanism to ensure pollution monitoring, reduction and control in urban and industrial areas.