This article examines the nexus between the extractive sector laws and energy development in Cameroon with focus on renewable energy in order to promote sustainable national livelihoods for the benefit of all and sundry. It should immediately be pointed out that, traditional energy sources like mining, oil and gas, or betterstill fossil fuels; are environmentally disastrous. These traditional energy sources contribute enormously in the emission of Green House Gases that are major threats to climate change to which the globe is confronted to nowadays. This article therefore articulates on how the extractive sector laws can serve as a pivot in making the use of renewable energy sources important in the exploration and exploitation of mineral resources. More still, it is regrettable that the current extractive laws in the country do not sufficiently take into cognizance the need to explore renewable energy sources. In consequence to the shortcomings noticed in the extractive sector laws in Cameroon in enhancing energy development with focus on renewable energy, the key recommendation to this legislative quagmire in the extractive sector laws is that, there is urgent need to review some provisons of the extractive sector laws so that, it should henceforth take into keen consideration the relevance of energy development by paying attention on the imoportance of reneawable energy.