61 24.1. At the Institutional level Within the framework of the national natural resource management policy, the Government has initiated a series of activities based principally on the information and training of all the stakeholders on the rational management of the natural resources, punctuated by meetings, field trips and radio broadcast messages regarding the protection of the environment. In this respect, measures have been taken, in particular the management of both natural and artificial forest reserves and the surveillance of the environment through the granting of logging permits and certificates of environmental conformity for the haulers and workers of mine products and quarries which culminated in: - The issuing of 85 permits for mining and quarrying works, - The issuing of 407 permits for transportation work, - The rejection of 5 requests and - The levying of fines on the offenders. Moreover, a temporary document on the country’s environmental profile (PEP) as well as a publication by INECN of 4 scientific Bulletins on the protected areas had been disseminated. It should also be pointed out that this Institution carries out environmental surveillance over 157,000 hectares distributed into protected parks and forest reserves across the entire country. Within the framework of its environment and soil protection policy, the Government, with the support of its development partners, continued to carry out its programme of eucalyptus planting, of digging auxiliary contours, of sensitization against bush fires and of re-afforestation. More specifically the Government envisages a more visible factoring out of the consequences of climate change the impact of which on the populations’ living conditions involves challenges for which adapted solutions need to be sought. In this regard it is advocated to: - Concretize the obligations emanating from the ratification by Burundi of the International Convention on Climate Change including in particular the preparation of a national communication situating the state of greenhouse gases, - Prepare a plan of action and of adaptation aimed at checking the repercussions on the vulnerable groups and to define an investment programme making it possible to respond to the consequences of climate change.