List of ministers of the environment

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This is a list of ministers of the environment or officials in cabinet level positions with "environment" in their titles.

Afghanistan[edit]

Title		Minister	Incumbency		Under	Notes
			1933-11-08/1973-07-17		Zahir Shah (mo)	[1]
			1973-07-17/1978-04-27		Daoud (-) (M)	[1]
			1978-04-27/1978-04-30		Qadir (mi)	[1]
			1978-04-30/1979-09-16		Taraki (H)	[1]
			1979-09-16/1979-12-27		Amin (H)	[1]
			1979-12-27/1981		Karmal (H)	[1]
none			1981			[2]
			1981–1985			[1]
none			1985			[3]
			1985/1986-11-20			[1]
			1986-11-20/1987-09-30		Chamkani (H)	[1]
			1987-09-30/1991-08		Najibullah (H) (W)	[1]
none			1991-08			[4]
			1991-08/1992-04-16			[1]
none			2001-12-22/2002		Karzai (I)	[1][5][6]
Minister of irrigation and environment		Ahmed Yusuf Nuristani	2002–2004			[7]
none			2006-05-02/				[8]

Åland Islands[edit]

Title		Minister	Incumbency		Under	Notes
Minister of social affairs and environment		Harriet Lindeman (FS)	1999–2001		Nordlund (C)
		Sune Eriksson (L)	2001–2003
		Gun-Mari Lindholm (O)	2003–2004
		Harriet Lindeman (FS)	2005–2007
		Katrin Sjögren (L)	/2008-04-04/		Eriksson (L)	[9][10]

Albania[edit]

Title		Minister	Incumbency		Under	Notes
			1954-07-23/1981-12-18		Shehu (P)	[11]
			1981-12-18/1991-02-22		Çarçani (P)	[11]
			1991-02-22/1991-06-05		Nano (P)	[11]
			1991-06-05/		Bufi (P)	[11]
			/1991-12-11		Bufi (S)	[11]
			1991-12-11/1992-04-13		Ahmeti (-)	[11]
			1992-04-13/1997-03-11		Meksi (D)	[11]
			1997-03-11/1997-06-24		Fino (S)	[11]
Minister of health and environment		Leonard Solis (U)	1997-06-24/1998-10-02		Nano (S)	[11][12]
			1998-10-02/1999-10-29		Majko (S)	[11]
			1999-10-29/2001		Meta (S)	[11]
none			2001			[11][13]
			2001/2002-02-22			[11]
			2002-02-22/2002		Majko (S)	[11]
Minister of environment		Lufter Xhuveli	2002			[11][14]
			2002/2002-07-31			[11]
			2002-07-31/2003		Nano (S)	[11]
Minister of environment		Lufter Xhuveli	2003			WSSD[11][15][16]
			2003/2004-05-24			[11]
Minister of environment		Ethem Ruka	/2004-05-24/			Kyoto[17][18]
			2004-05-24/2005-09-11			[11]
			2005-09-11/		Berisha (D)	[11]
Minister of the environment, forests, and water administration		Fatmir Mediu (R)	2009-11/2010-02-19/			[19][20]
Minister of environment		Lefter Koka (L)	2013-09-11/2017-09-13		Edi Rama (S)
Minister of tourism and environment		Blendi Klosi (S)	2017-09-13/

Algeria[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		1965-06-19/1978-12-27	Boumédienne (mi) (F)	[21]
		1978-12-27/1979-02-09	Bitat (F) (acting)	[21]
		1979-02-19/1979-03-08	Bendjedid (F)	[21]
		1979-03-08/1981	Abdelghani (F)	[21]
none		1981		[22]
		1981/1984-01-22		[21]
		1984-01-22/1985	Brahimi (F)	[21]
Minister of hydraulics, environment, and forests	Mohamed Rouighi	1985		[23]
		1985/1988-11-05		[21]
		1988-11-05/1989-09-09	Merbah (F)	[21]
		1989-09-09/1991-06-05	Hamrouche (F)	[21]
		1991-06-05/1991-07	Ghozali (F)	[21]
Minister development for research, technology, and environment	Cherif Hadj Slimane	1991-07		[24]
		1991-07/1992-07-08		[21]
		1992-07-08/1993-08-21	Abdessalam (F)	[21]
		1993-08-21/1994-04-11	Malek (-)	[21]
		1994-04-11/1995-12-31	Sifi (-)	[21]
		1995-12-31/1998-12-15	Ouyahia (-) (R)	[21]
		1998-12-15/1999-12-23	Hamdani (-)	[21]
		1999-12-23/2000-08-27	Benbitour (-)	[21]
		2000-08-27/2003-05-05	Benflis (F)	[21]
		2003-05-05/2005-10-25/	Ouyahia (R)	[21]
Minister of regional planning and the environment	Chérif Rahmani	/2005-10-25/		Kyoto[18][21][25]
		/2005-10-25/2006-05-24		[21]
		2006-05-24/2006-12-17/	Belkhadem (F)	[21]
Minister of land management and environment	Chérif Rahmani	/2006-12-17/		[26]
		/2006-12-17/2008-06-23		[21]
		2008-06-23/	Ouyahia (R)	[21]

Andorra[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		1994-12-21/	Forné Molné (L)	[27]
Minister of agriculture and the environment	Olga Adellach Coma (L)	1998–2001		[27][28]
Minister of agriculture and the environment	Olga Adellach Coma (L)	2001–2005		[28]
		2005-05-27/2009-06-05	Pintat (L)
		2009-06-05/	Bartumeu (S)	[29]
Minister of territorial planning, environment, and agriculture	Vicenç Alay Ferrer (S)	2010		[30][31]

Angola[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		1975-11-11/1979-09-10	Neto (M)	[32]
		1979-09-10/	Dos Santos (M)	[32]
none		1981		[32][33]
none		1985		[32][34]
none		1991		[32][35]
Minister of environment and urban development	Virgilio Ferreira de Fontes Pereira	/2004-10-22		[32][36]
Minister of urbanism and environment	Diakunpuna Sita José	2004-10-22/		[32][36][37] Kyoto[18]
Minister of the environment	Maria de Fátima Monteiro Jardim	2010-01-08/		[38]

Antigua and Barbuda[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		1967-02-27/1971-02-14	V. Bird (A)	[39]
		1971-02-14/1976-02-01	Walter (P)	[39]
		1976-02-01/1985	V. Bird (A)	[39]
none		1985		[40] Kyoto[18]
none		1991-07		[41]
		/1994-03-09		[39]
		1994-03-09/2004-03-24	L. Bird (A)	[39]
		2004-03-24/	Spencer (U)	[39]
Minister of environment	Wilmoth Daniel	/2006-04-10/		[42]
Minister of agriculture, lands, housing, and the environment	Hilson Baptiste	/2009-11-11/		[43][44]

Argentina[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Secretary of Natural Resources and Human Environment	María Julia Alsogaray	12 November 1991 - 10 December 1999	Carlos Menem
Secretary of Natural Resources and Sustainable Development
Secretary of Human Development and Environmental Policy	Oscar Ermelindo Massei	10 December 1999 - 22 August 2001	Fernando de la Rúa
	Rafael Horacio Flores	22 August 2001 - 19 September 2001
	Carlos Alberto Oehler	3 December 2001 - 20 December 2001
Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development	Carlos Elías Merenson	21 January 2002 - 25 May 2003	Eduardo Duhalde
	Jorge Néstor Amaya	1 June 2003 - 2 September 2003	Néstor Kirchner
	Atilio Armando Savino	11 September 2003 - 27 June 2006
	Romina Picolotti	6 July 2006 - 10 December 2007
		10 December 2007 - 3 December 2008	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
	Homero Bibiloni	3 December 2008 - 29 December 2010
	Juan José Mussi	29 December 2010 - 6 December 2013
	Omar Vicente Judis	6 December 2013 - 4 March 2015
	Sergio Lorusso	4 March 2015 - 10 December 2015
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development	Sergio Bergman	10 December 2015 - 5 September 2018	Mauricio Macri
Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development		5 September 2018- Present

Armenia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of Nature Protection	Artsvik Minasyan		Margaryan
none		2009	Sargsyan	[45][46]

Aruba[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none			Oduber

Australia[edit]

Title		Minister	Incumbency		Under	Notes
none			1968-01-10/1971-03-10		Gorton (Li)	[47]
			1971-03-10/1971-05-31		McMahon (Li)	[47]
Minister for the environment, aborigines, and the arts		Peter Howson (Li)	1971-05-31/1972-12-05			[47][48][49]
		Gough Whitlam (La)	1972-12-05/1972-12-19		Whitlam (La)	[47][48]
Minister for the environment and conservation		Moss Cass (La)	1972-12-19/1975-04-21			[47][48][50]
Minister for the environment			1975-04-21/1975-06-06			[47][48]
		Jim Cairns (La)	1975-06-06/1975-07-02			[47][48][51]
		Gough Whitlam (La)	1975-07-02/1975-07-14			[47][48]
		Joe Berinson (La)	1975-07-14/1975-11-11			[47][48][52]
			1975-11-11/1975-11-12		Fraser (Li)	[47]
		Andrew Peacock (Li)	1975-11-12/1975-12-22			[47][48][52]
Minister for the environment, housing, and community development		Ivor Greenwood (Li)	1975-12-22/1976-07-08			[47][48][53]
		Kevin Newman (Li)	1976-07-08/1977-12-20			[47][48][52]
		Ray Groom (Li)	1977-12-20/1978-12-05			[47][48][52]
Minister for science and the environment		James Webster (N)	1978-12-05/1979-12-08			[47][48][53]
		David Thomson (N)	1979-12-08/1980-11-03			[47][48][52]
Minister for home affairs and environment		Robert Ellicott (Li)	1980-11-03/1981-02-17			[47][48][52]
		Michael MacKellar (Li)	1981-02-17/1981-03-19			[47][48][54]
		Ian Wilson (Li)	1981-03-19/1982-05-07			[47][48][55]
		Tom McVeigh (N)	1982-05-07/1983-03-11			[47][48][56]
		Barry Cohen (La)	1983-03-11/1984-12-13		Hawke (La)	[47][48][57]
Minister for the arts, heritage, and the environment			1984-12-13/1987-07-24			[47][48][57]
Minister for the arts, sport, environment, tourism, and territories		John Brown (La)	1987-07-24/1988-01-19			[58] [47][48]
		Graham Richardson (La)	1988-01-19/1990-04-04			[47][48][59]
		Ros Kelly (La)	1990-04-04/1991-12-20			[47][48][60]
			1991-12-20/1991-12-27		Keating (La)	[47][48][60]
Minister for the arts, sport, environment, and territories			1991-12-27/1993-03-24			[47][48][60]
Minister for the environment, sport, and territories			1993-03-24/1994-03-01			[47][48][60]
		Graham Richardson (La)	1994-03-01/1994-03-25			[47][48][61]
		John Faulkner (La)	1994-03-25/1996-03-11			[47][48][62]
		Robert Hill (Li)	1996-03-11/1997-10-09		Howard (Li)	[47][48][63]
Minister for the environment			1997-10-09/1998-10-21			[47][48]
Minister for the environment and heritage			1998-10-21/2001-11-26			[47][48]
		David Kemp (Li)	2001-11-26/2004-07-18			[47][64]
		Ian Campbell (Li)	2004-07-18/2007-01-30			[47][48][65]
Minister for the environment and water resources		Malcolm Turnbull (Li)	2007-01-30/2007-12-03			[47][66]
Minister for the environment, heritage and the arts		Peter Garrett (La)	2007-12-03/2010-06-24		Rudd (La)	[47][67][68] Kyoto[69]
			2010-06-24/2010-09-14		Gillard (La)	[68]
Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities		Tony Burke	2010-09-14/			[70][71]

Austria[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Federal minister for environment, youth, and family affairs	Martin Bartenstein	/1996-05-01/		[72]
Minister of agriculture, forestry, environment, and water management	Josef Proell		Schüssel

Azerbaijan[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources	Huseyn Bagirov		Rasizade

Bahamas[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		1981	Pindling	[73]
none		1985		[74]
none		1991-07		[75]
Minister of health and the environment	Marcus C. Bethel		Christie [citation needed]	[76]

Bahrain[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		1981	Khalifa bin Salman	[77]
none		1985		[78]
none		1991-07		[79]
Minister of state for municipal and environmental affairs	Jawad Salem Al-Orayyed	/2002-09-02/		WSSD[80]

Bangladesh[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		1981	Rahman	[81]
none		1985	Ershad	[82]
Minister of state for environment and forests	Abdullah Al Noman	1991-07	Zia	[83]
Minister for forest, fisheries, livestock, and environment		/1993-06-30/1993-07-01/		[84][85]
Minister of environment and forest	Shahjahan Siraj	/2004/	Zia[citation needed]	[86]
	Tariqul Islam	/2005-01-17/		[87]
	Chowdhury Sajjadul Karim			[88]

Barbados[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of housing, lands, and environment	Lionel Craig	1981	Adams	[89]
Minister of tourism and the environment	Aaron Truss	1985	St. John	[90]
		1987-06-01/1994-09-07	Sandiford	[91] Earth Summit[92]
Minister of labour, consumer affairs, and the environment	Warwick Franklin	1991		[93][94]
		1994-09-07/	Arthur	[91]
Minister of physical development and environment	Elizabeth Thompson	/2002-09-03/		WSSD[95]
Minister of energy and the environment		2006-02/		[96]
Minister of housing, lands, and environment [citation needed]
		/2008-01-16		[91]
		2008-01-16/	Thompson	[91]
Minister of environment, water resources, and drainage	Denis Lowe	/2008-12-11/		[97]
Minister of Environment and National Beautification	Trevor Prescod	2018-05-26	Mia Mottley	[98]
Minister of Environment and National Beautification	Adrian Forde	2020-07-23	Mia Mottley	[99]

Belarus[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		2003-12-19/	Sidorsky	[100]
Minister of natural resources and environmental protection	Leonty I. Khoruzhik			[101]

Belgium[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		1999-07-13/	Verhofstadt	[102]
Minister of environment, consumer protection, and sustainable development	Freya Van den Bossche	2003-07-12/2004-07-19		[103]
Minister of the environment and pensions	Bruno Tobback	2004-07-20/		[104]

Belize[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		1985	Esquivel	[105]
none		1991-08	Price	[106]
		1998-08-28/	Musa	[107]
Minister of natural resources, the environment, and industry	Johnny Briceño	/1999-10-05/2000-10-27/		[108][109]
Minister of natural resources and the environment, commerce, and industry		2001-10-15/2004-01-26/		[110] WSSD[111][112]
Minister of health and the environment	Vildo Marin	/2004-08-18/2004-10-29/		[113][114]
Minister of natural resources and the environment	John Briceño	/2004-12-28/		[115]
Minister of natural resources, local government, and the environment		/2005-07-14/2005-10-03/		[116][117]
Minister of natural resources and the environment		/2007-01-17/		[118]
	Florencio Marin	2007-06-05/2007-11-16/		[119][120]
		2008-02-08/	Barrow	[121]
	Gaspar Vega	/2008-05-17/2008-05-22/		[122][123]

Benin[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		1981	Kérékou	[124]
		1985		[125]
		1991-08	Soglo	[126]
Minister of the environment, housing, and urban planning	Luc-Marie Constant Gnacadja	1999-06/2005-02	Kérékou	[127]
Minister of environment and natural protection	Jean-Pierre Babatounde	/2006-11-30/	Boni[citation needed]	[128] WSSD [citation needed]
Minister of environment and conservation of nature	Koudenoukpo Biaou Juliette	/2007-11-05/	Yayi	[129]

Bermuda[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Arthur DO Hodgson	1998-11-10/~2000-11	Smith
	Terry Lister	~2000-11/~2001-10
	Dennis Lister	~2001-10/2003-07-30
	D. Neletha Butterfield	2003-07-30/	Scott

Bhutan[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		/2002-09-03/	Dorji
		2003-08-30/2004-08-20	Jigme Yoser Thinley
Deputy minister of the national environment commission	Dasho Nado Rinchen		Zimba

Bolivia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of sustainable development and planning	Jose Guillermo Justiniano Sandoval	/2002-09-02/
Minister of sustainable development	Gustavo Pedraza Merida		Mesa Gisbert
	Erwin Aguilera

Bosnia and Herzegovina[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		/2002-09-03/	Mikerevic
Minister of urban planning and environment (Federation government)	Ramiz Mehmedagic		Hadzipasic (FG)
Minister of urban planning, environment, and construction (Republika Srpska)	Mensur Sehagic
Minister of urban planning, environment, and construction (Republika Srpska)	Hrusto Tupekovic

Botswana[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment, wildlife, and tourism	Pelonomi Venson
	Kitso Mokaila		Mogae

Brazil[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		/1992-06-03/	Collor
			Cardoso
Minister of environment	Marina Silva	/2006-11-16/2008-05-13	Lula da Silva	[130]
	Carlos Minc	2008-05/		[130]

Brunei[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none			Bolkiah

Bulgaria[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and water	Dolores Borissova Arssenova		Sakskoburggotski

Burkina Faso[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Dakar Djibrill		Yonli

Burma[edit]

See Myanmar.

Burundi[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of land management, environment, and tourism	Albert Mbonerane	2003 - 2005	Ndayizeye
Minister of Environment, Territory Management and Public services	Anatole Kanyenkiko	2007 - 2010	Nkurunziza
Minister of Environment, Territory Management and Public services	Jean-Marie Nibirantije	2010-08-30 - 2013	Nkurunziza

Cambodia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of Environment	Mok Mareth	/1993-10-18/1998-12-22/	Hun Sen	[131][132]

Cameroon[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and forests	Clarkson Oben Tanyi-Mbianyor	/2002-09-04/2002-11-04/		WSSD[133][134]
Minister of environment and nature protection	Pierre Hele	/2005-04-21/		[135]

Canada[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		1968-04-20/1971-06-10	Trudeau (L)	[136]
Minister of the environment	Jack Davis (L)	1971-06-11/1974-08-07		[136][137]
	Jeanne Sauvé (L)	1974-08-08/1975-12-04		[136][138]
	Roméo LeBlanc (L) (acting)	1975-12-05/1976-01-21		[136][139]
	Jean Marchand (L)	1976-01-22/1976-06-30		[136][140]
	Roméo LeBlanc (L) (acting)	1976-07-01/1976-09-13		[136][139]
Minister of fisheries and environment		1976-09-14/1979-04-01		[136][139]
Minister of the environment	Leonard Marchand (L)	1979-04-02/1979-06-03		[136][141]
	John Allen Fraser (PC)	1979-06-04/1980-03-02	Clark (PC)	[142][143]
	John Roberts (L)	1980-03-03/1983-08-11	Trudeau (L)	[144][145]
	Charles Caccia (L)	1983-08-12/1984-06-29		[145][146]
		1984-06-30/1984-09-16	Turner (L)	[146][147]
	Suzanne Blais-Grenier (PC)	1984-09-17/1985-08-19	Mulroney (PC)	[148][149]
	Thomas McMillan (PC)	1985-08-20/1988-12-07		[149][150]
	Lucien Bouchard (PC) (acting)	1988-12-08/1989-01-29		[149][151]
		1989-01-30/1990-05-21		[149][151]
	Frank Oberle (PC) (acting)	1990-05-22/1990-05-22		[149][152]
	Robert de Cotret (PC) (acting)	1990-05-23/1990-09-19		[149][153]
		1990-09-20/1991-04-20		[149][153]
	Jean Charest (PC)	1991-04-21/1993-06-24		[149][154] Earth Summit
	Pierre H. Vincent (PC)	1993-06-25/1993-11-03	Campbell (PC)	[155][156]
	Sheila Copps (L)	1993-11-04/1996-01-24	Chrétien (L)	[157][158]
	Sergio Marchi (L)	1996-01-25/1997-06-10		[158][159]
	Christine Stewart (L)	1997-06-11/1999-08-02		[158][160]
	David Anderson (L)	1999-08-03/2003-12-11		[158][161] WSSD
		2003-12-12/2004-07-19	Martin (L)	[161][162]
	Stéphane Dion (L)	2004-07-20/2006-02-05		[162][163]
	Rona Ambrose (C)	2006-02-06/2007-01-03	Harper (C)	[164][165]
	John Baird (C)	2007-01-04/2008-10-29		[165][166]
	Jim Prentice (C)	2008-10-30/2010-11-05		[165][167]
	John Baird (C)	2010-11-07/		[165][168]

Cape Verde[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment, agriculture, and fisheries	Maria Madalena Neves		Neves

Cayman Islands[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for tourism, environment, and transportation	William McKeeva Bush	/2001-07-03/		[169]

Central African Republic[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Joseph Ki Tiki Kouamba		Gaombalet

Chad[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and water resources	Oumar Kadjalami Boukar	/2002-06-13	Yamassoum
		2002-06-13/2003-06-24	Kabadi
	Djimrangar Dadnadji	2003-06-24/2004-07-24	Faki
	Adoum Diar	2004-07-24/2005-02-04
		2005-02-04/	Yoadimnadji

Chile[edit]

Title		Minister	Incumbency		Under	Notes
none with ministerial rank			until 2007-03-27		Bachelet (PS)	[170][171]
Minister-President of the National Environmental Commission of Chile		Ana Lya Uriarte (PS)	2007-03-27/2010-03-11
		María Ignacia Benítez (UDI)	2010-03-11/2010-10-01		Piñera (Ind.)	[172]
Minister of the Environment			2010-03-11/2014-03-11
		Pablo Badenier (DC)	2014-03-11/2017-03-20		Bachelet (PS)	[173][174]
		Marcelo Mena (Ind.)	2017-03-20/2018-03-11
		Marcela Cubillos (UDI)	2018-03-11/2018-08-09		Piñera (Ind.)	[175][176]
		Carolina Schmidt (Ind.)	2018-08-09

Republic of the Congo[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of industry, mines, and environment	Michel Mampouya		Sassou-Nguesso
Minister of forestry, economy, and environment	Henri Djombo	/2006-11-16/

Cook Islands[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Ngamau Munokoa
	Tom Masters		Marurai
			Woonton

Costa Rica[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and energy	Carlos Manuel Rodriguez		Pacheco

Ivory Coast[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
			Affi
Minister of environment	Angele Gnonsoa		Diarra

Croatia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		1991-07-17/1992-08-12	Greguric
Minister of environmental protection, physical planning, and construction	Marina Matulović Dropulić		Sanader

Cuba[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of science, technology, and environment	Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín		Castro
	none

Cyprus[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of agriculture, natural resources, and environment	Costas Themistocleous	/2002-09-03/
	Efthymios Efthymiou		Papadopoulos

Czech Republic[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	František Benda		Václav Klaus
	Jiří Skalický		Václav Klaus Josef Tošovský
	Martin Bursík		Josef Tošovský
	Miloš Kužvart		Miloš Zeman
	Libor Ambrozek		Vladimír Špidla Stanislav Gross Jiří Paroubek
	Petr Kalaš		Mirek Topolánek
	Martin Bursík		Mirek Topolánek
	Ladislav Miko		Jan Fischer
	Jan Dusík		Jan Fischer
	Jakub Šebesta		Jan Fischer
	Rut Bízková		Jan Fischer
	Pavel Drobil		Petr Nečas
	Tomáš Chalupa		Petr Nečas
	Tomáš Podivínský		Jiří Rusnok
	Richard Brabec		Bohuslav Sobotka Andrej Babiš

Denmark[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for the environment	Helge Nielsen (S)	1973-09-27/1973-12-18	Jørgensen (S)	[177][178]
		1973-12-18/1973-12-19	Hartling (V)	[178]
Minister for the environment and Greenland	Holger Hansen (V)	1973-12-19/1975-02-13		[177][178]
Minister for the environment	Helge Nielsen (S)	1975-02-13/1977-01-26	Jørgensen (S)	[177][178]
	Svend Jakobsen (S)	1977-01-26/1977-02-26		[177]
	Niels Matthiasen (S)	1977-02-26/1978-08-30		[177]
	Ivar Nørgaard (S)	1978-08-30/1980-02-28		[177]
	Erik Holst (S)	1980-02-28/1982-09-10		[177][178]
Minister for the environment and Nordic affairs	Christian Christensen (K)	1982-09-10/1987-09-10	Schlüter (C)	[177][178]
Minister for the environment		1987-09-10/1988-06-03		[177]
	Lone Dybkjær (B)	1988-06-03/1990-12-18		[177]
	Per Stig Møller (C)	1990-12-18/1993-01-25		[177][178]
	Svend Auken (S)	1993-01-25/1994-09-27	PN Rasmussen (S)	[177][178]
Minister for the environment and energy		1994-09-27/2001-11-27		[177][178]
Minister for the environment	Hans Christian Schmidt (V)	2001-11-27/2004-08-02	AF Rasmussen (V)	[177][178] WSSD
	Connie Hedegaard (C)	2004-08-02/2007-11-23		[177]
	Troels Lund Poulsen (V)	2007-11-23/2009-04-05		[178][179]
		2009-04-05/2010-02-23	LL Rasmussen (V)	[178]
	Karen Ellemann (V)	2010-02-23/		[180]

Djibouti[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of housing, town planning, environment, and national and regional development	Abdallah Adillahi Miguil		Dileita
Minister of urban planning, housing, environment, national, and regional development	Souleiman Omar Oudine

Dominica[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
			Charles
			Riviere
Minister of agriculture and the environment	Ambrose George		Roosevelt

Dominican Republic[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Secretary of state for the environment and natural resources	Frank Moya Pons	/2000-08-18/2004-08-16	Mejía
	Maximiliano Puig Miller	2004-08-16/	Fernández

East Timor[edit]

See Timor-Leste

Ecuador[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Cesar Alfonso Narvaez
	Fabian Valdivieso		Gutiérrez
	Anita Alban		Palacio

Egypt[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of agriculture, environment, and development	Zegeye Asfaw	/1992-06-14/
Minister of environment	Mamdouh Riyadh Tadros
Minister of state for environment affairs	Nadia Makram Ebeid	/2004-07-14	Atef Ebeid
	Maged George	2004-07-14/	Nazif

El Salvador[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and natural resources	Walter Jokisch		Flores
Minister of environment	Hugo Barrera		Saca

Equatorial Guinea[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of forestry and environment	Teodorín Nguema Obiang		Mbasogo

Eritrea[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of land, water, and environment	Weldenkeil Ghebremariam		Afewerki

Estonia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Heiki Kranich	1999-03-25/2002-01-28	Laar
		2002-01-28/2003-03-04/	Kallas
		2003-03-04/2003-04-10
		2003-04-10/2005-04-12	Parts
	Villu Reiljan	/2005-04-12/
		2005-04-12/	Ansip

Ethiopia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of the Environment

European Union[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
European commissioner for the environment	Stanley Clinton Davis (L, UK)	1985–1988	Delors (S)
	Carlo Ripa di Meana (V, Italy)	1989–1992
	Ioannis Paleokrassas (ND, Greece)	1993/1995-01-24
	Ritt Bjerregaard (S)	1995-01-25/1999-03-15	Santer (P)
		1999-03-16/1999–11-16	Marín (S)
	Margot Wallström (S)	1999–11-17/2004-11-22	Prodi (L)
	Stavros Dimas (P)	2004–11-22/2010	Barroso (P)	[181]
	Janez Potočnik (L)	2010/		[182]

Faroe Islands[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of finance, economics and environment	Jóngerð Purkhús	1985-01-10/1989-01-18	Dam (J)	[183]
Minister of energy, environment and education	Signar Hansen	1989-01-18/1989-06-22	Sundstein (F)	[183]
Minister of education, culture and environment		1989-06-22/1991-01-15		[183]
Minister of transport, environment and energy	Svend Aage Ellefsen	1991-01-15/1993-04-24	Dam (J)	[183]
Minister of environment, energy and local affairs	Signar Hansen	1993-04-24/1994-09-10	Petersen (J)	[183]
Minister of environment, energy, education and local affairs	Eilif Samuelsen	1994-09-10/1998-05-15	Joensen (S)	[183]
Minister of oil and environment	Eyðun Elttør	1998-05-15/2004-02-03	Kallsberg (F)	[183]

Fiji[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Ministry of local government, housing, environment, infrastructure & transport	Parveen Bala		Frank Bainimarama

Finland[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		1970-07-15/1971-10-29	Karjalainen (Ke)	[184]
		1971-10-29/1972-02-22	Aura (-)	[184]
		1972-02-22/1972-09-04	Paasio (S)	[184]
		1972-09-04/1975-06-13	Sorsa (S)	[184]
		1975-06-13/1975-11-30	Liinamaa (-)	[184]
		1975-11-30/1977-05-15	Miettunen (Ke)	[184]
		1977-05-15/1979-05-26	Sorsa (S)	[184]
		1979-05-26/1981-09-11	Koivisto (S)	[184]
		1981-09-11/1982-02-25	Uusitalo (Ke)	[184]
		1982-02-25/1987-04-30	Sorsa (S)	[184]
		1987-04-30/1991-04-26	Holkeri (Ko)	[184]
		1991-04-26/1994-11-23/	Aho (Ke)	[184]
Minister of the environment	Sirpa Pietikäinen	/1994-11-23/		[185]
		1994-11-23/1995-04-13		[184]
		1995-04-13/1999-04-14	Lipponen (S)	[184]
	Satu Hassi	1999-04-14/2002-05-31
	Jouni Backman	2002-05-31/2003-04-17		[184]
Minister of the environment and Nordic cooperation	Jan-Erik Enestam	2003-04-17/2003-06-24	Jäätteenmäki (Ke)	[184]
		2003-06-24/2006-11-17/	Vanhanen (Ke)	[184]
	Kimmo Tiilikainen	/2008-04-04/		[9]

France[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for the Environment and Way of Life	Robert Poujade	1971–1974
	André Fosset	1976–1977
	Michel d'Ornano	1978–1981
	Michel Crépeau	1981–1983
	Huguette Bouchardeau	1983–1984
	Haroun Tazieff	1984–1986
	Alain Carignon	1986–1988
	Brice Lalonde	1988–1992
	Ségolène Royal	1992-06-04/1993
	Michel Barnier	1993–1995
	Corinne Lepage	1996–1997
	Dominique Voynet	1997–2001
	Yves Cochet	2001–2002
	Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin	2002-05-07/2004-03-31
	Raffarin	2004-03-31
	Serge Lepeltier	2004-03-31/2005-05-31
	Villepin	2005-05-31/2005-06-03
	Nelly Olin	2005-06-03
	Alain Juppé	2007-05-18/2007-06-18
	Fillon	2007-06-18
	Jean-Louis Borloo	2007-06-19/2008-12-11
	Phillipe Martin	2013-07-02/2014-03-31
Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy	Ségolène Royal	2014-03-31/2017-05-10	Valls Cazeneuve
Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition	Nicolas Hulot	2017-05-17/2018-08-28	Philippe
	Christophe Béchu	22-07-04/	Borne/Attal

Gabon[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of forest economy, water, fishing, in charge of the environment	Emile Doumba		Emane
Minister of environment	Georgette Koko	/2008-12-11/		[97]

The Gambia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Secretary of state for fisheries, natural resources, and environment	Susan Waffa-Ogoo		Jammeh
	Bai Mass Taal

Georgia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Tamar Lebanidze
		/2005-02-03	Zhvania
		2005-02-03/2005-02-17	Baramidze
	Giorgi Papuashvili
		2005-02-17/	Nogaideli

Germany[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		1969-10-21/1974-05-07	Brandt (S)	[186][187]
		1974-05-16/1982-10-01	Schmidt (S)	[187]
		1982-10-01/1998-10-27	Kohl (C)	[187]
Minister for environment, nature conservation, and nuclear safety	Walter Wallmann (C)	1986-06-06/1987-05-07		[187]
	Klaus Töpfer (C)	1987-05-07/1994-11-17		[186][187][188]
	Angela Merkel (C)	1994-11-17/1998-10-27		[187][189]
	Jürgen Trittin (G)	1998-10-27/2005-11-22	Schröder (S)	[187]
	Sigmar Gabriel (S)	2005-11-22/2009-10-28	Angela Merkel (C)	[187]
	Norbert Röttgen (C)	2009-10-28/2012-05-22		[187]
	Peter Altmaier (C)	2012-05-22/2013-12-17
Minister for environment, nature conservation, building, and nuclear safety	Barbara Hendricks (S)	2013-12-17/2018-03-14
Minister for environment, nature conservation, and nuclear safety	Svenja Schulze (S)	2018-03-14

Ghana[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		/1994/1996-05-01/	Rawlings
Minister of environment, science, and technology	Christina Amoako-Nuama	/1996-05-01/		[72]
		/1996-05-01/2001-01-07
		2001-01-07/2001-10	Kufuor
Minister of science and environment	Kasim Kasanga
	Christine Churcher

Greece[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for the environment, energy, and climate change	Tina Birbili	2009-10-07/	Papandreou (S)	[190]

Greenland[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
	Kim Kielsen	2008-04-04		[9]

Grenada[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of health and environment		/2002-09-04/	Mitchell
Minister of health, social security, and the environment	Ann David-Antoine	2003-12-03/
Minister of health and environment	Clarice Modeste-Curwen
Minister of state of the environment	Sylvester Quarless	/2008-12-11/		[191]

Guatemala[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		2000-01-14/2004-01-14	Portillo
	Carlos Cáceres Ruiz	/2002-09-03/
		2004-01-14/	Berger
Minister of the environment and natural resources	Manuel Salazar Tezaguic
	Juan Mario Dary Fuentes

Guinea[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		1999-03-08/2004-02-23	Sidime
		2004-02-23/2004-12-09	Fall
Minister of environment	Cheik Abdel Kader
		2004-12-09/	Diallo
Minister of mining, geology, and environment	Alpha Mady Soumah

Guinea-Bissau[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		2001-12-09/2002-11-17	Nhassé

Guyana[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Haiti[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		1988-02-09/1988-06-20	Célestin
		1988-06-20/1991-02-13
		1991-02-13/1991-10-11	Préval
		1991-10-11/1992-06-19	Honorat int.
		1992-06-19/1993-08-30	Bazin
		1993-08-30/1994-11-08	Malval
		1994-11-08/1995-11-07	Michel
		1995-11-07/1996-02-27	Werleigh
		1996-02-27/1997-01-30	Smarth
Minister of environment	Yves Andre Wainright	/1997-01-30/1997-10-21
		1997-10-21/1999-03-26
		1999-03-26/2001-03-02	Alexis
		2001-03-02/2002-03-15	Chérestal
		2002-03-15/2004-03-12	Neptune
		2004-03-12/	Latortue

Holy See[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
	none	1969-05-02/1979-03-09	Villot
		1979-03-09/1979-04-30	none
		1979-04-30/1990-12-01	Casaroli
		1990-12-01/	Sodano

Honduras[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		1971-06-07/1972-12-04	Uclés
		1972-12-04/1975-04-22	Arellano
		1975-04-22/1978-08-07	Castro
		1978-08-07/1982-01-27	García
		1982-01-27/1986-01-27	Córdova
		1986-01-27/1990-01-27	Del Hoyo
		1990-01-27/1994-01-27	Callejas
		1994-01-27/1997-06	Reina
Minister of natural resources and environment	Sandoval Sorto	1997-06/1998-01-27
	Elvin Ernesto Holy	1998-01-27/1999-01	Facussé
	Silvia Xiomara Go'mez de Caballero	1999-01/2002-01-27
	Patricia Panting Galo	2002-01-27/	Maduro

Hong Kong[edit]

Title	Secretary	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Secretary for the environment and food
Secretary for the environment, transport, and works	Sarah Liao	2002-07-01/2005-06-25
		2005-06-25/2007-06-30	Tsang
Secretary for the environment	Edward Yau	2007-07-01/		[192]

Hungary[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		Fock	1967-04-14/1975-05-15
		Lázár	1975-05-15/1987-06-25
		Grósz	1987-06-25/1988-11-23
	Maróthy László from 1987-12-17	Németh	1988-11-23/1990-05-03
		Antall	1990-05-03/1993-12-12
		Boross	1993-12-12/1994-07-15
		Horn	1994-07-15/1998-07-06
		Orbán	1998-07-06/2002-05-27
		Medgyessy	2002-05-27/2004-09-29
		Gyurcsány	2004-09-29/
Minister of environmental protection and water management	Miklos Persanyi
secretary of state for Environmental Affairs and the Circular Economy	Anikó Raisz	Orbán	24 May 2022/

Iceland[edit]

Title	Minister		Incumbency	Under		Notes
Minister for the Environment		Edvard Júlíus Sólnes (CP)	1990-02-23/1991-04-30		Steingrímur Hermannsson (PP)	[193]
		Eiður Svanberg Guðnason (SDP)	1991-04-30/1993-06-14		Davíð Oddsson (IP)	[193]
		Össur Skarphéðinsson (SDP)	1993-06-14/1995-04-23			[193]
		Guðmundur Kristján Bjarnason (PP)	1995-04-23/1999-05-11			[193]
		Halldór Ásgrímsson (PP)	1999-05-11/1999-05-28			[193]
		Siv Friðleifsdóttir (PP)	1999-05-28/2004-09-15			[193]
		Sigríður Anna Þórðardóttir (IP)	2004-09-15/2006-06-15		Halldór Ásgrímsson (PP)	[193]
		Jónína Bjartmarz (PP)	2006-06-15/2007-05-24		Geir Haarde (IP)	[193]
		Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir (SDA)	2007-05-24/2009-02-01			[193]
		Kolbrún Halldórsdóttir (LGM)	2009-02-01/2009-05-10		Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (SDA)	[193]
		Svandís Svavarsdóttir (LGM)	2009-05-10/2012-09-01			[193]
Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources			2012-09-01/			[193]

India[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change	Dr. Harsh Vardhan	/2017-05-18/2019-05-30/	Narendra Modi
	Prakash Javdekar	/2019-05-30/2021-07-07/	Narendra Modi
	Bhupender Yadav	/2021-07-07/	Narendra Modi
Minister of State for Forest and Climate Change	Ashwini Kumar Choubey	/2021-07-07/	Narendra Modi

Indonesia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of state for environment	Sarwono Kusumaatmadja	/1993-06-24/		[194]
State minister of environmental affairs	Nabiel Makarim
Minister for the environment	Rachmat Witoelar

Iran[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Vice president for environmental protection	Isa Kalantari

Iraq[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Mishkat al-Mumin	/2005-04-07	Allawi
		2005-04-07/2005-05-03	Jaafari
	Narmin Othman	2005-05-03/

Republic of Ireland[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for the Environment	Sylvester Barrett (FF)	1979-12-12/1980-10-15	Haughey (FF)
	Ray Burke (FF)	1980-10-15/1981-06-30
	Peter Barry (FG)	1981-06-30/1982-03-09	FitzGerald (FG)
	Ray Burke (FF)	1982-03-09/1982-12-14	Haughey (FF)
	Dick Spring (L)	1982-12-14/1983-12-13	FitzGerald (FG)
	Liam Kavanagh (Lab)	1983-12-13/1986-02-14
	John Boland (FG)	1986-02-14/1987-03-10
		1987-03-10/1987-07-12	Haughey (FF)
	Pádraig Flynn (FF)	1987-07-12/1991-11-08
	John Wilson (FF)	1991-11-09/1991-11-14
	Rory O'Hanlon (FF)	1991-11-14/1992-11-02
	Michael Smith (FF)	/1992-03-17/		[195]
	Michael Smith (FF)	1992-11-02/1994-12-15	Reynolds (FF)
	Brendan Howlin (Lab)	1994-12-15/1997-06-26	Bruton (FG)
	Noel Dempsey (FF)	1997-06-26/1997-07-22
Minister for Environment and Local Government		1997-07-22/2002-06-06	Ahern (FF)
Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government	Martin Cullen (FF)	2002-06-06/2004-09-29
	Dick Roche (FF)	2004-09-29/2007-06-14
	John Gormley (GP)	2007-06-14/2008-05-07
		2008-05-07/2011-01-23	Cowen (FF)	[196]
	Éamon Ó Cuív (FF)	2011-01-23/2011-03-09		[196][197]
Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government	Phil Hogan (FG)	2011-03-09/2014-07-11	Kenny (FG)
	Alan Kelly (Lab)	2014-07-11/2016-05-06
	Simon Coveney (FG)	2016-05-06/2016-07-23
Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment	Denis Naughten (Ind)	2016-07-23/2018-10-11
	Richard Bruton (FG)	2018-10-11/2020-06-27	Varadkar (FG)
	Eamon Ryan (GP)	2020-06-27/2020-09-24	Martin (FF)
Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications		2020-09-24	Varadkar (FG)

Israel[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		1969-03-17/1974-06-03	Meir (A)	[198]
		1974-06-03/1977-04-22	Rabin (A)	[198]
		1977-04-22/1977-06-21	Peres (A)	[198]
		1977-06-21/1983-10-10	Begin (H)	[198]
		1983-10-10/1984-09-14	Shamir (H)	[198]
		1984-09-14/1986-10-20	Peres (A)	[198]
		1986-10-20/1988-12-22	Shamir (L)	[198]
Minister of the environment	Roni Milo	1988-12-22/1990-03-07		[198][199]
	Raphael Edery	1988-12-22/1990-03-15		2 minis.[198][199]
none		1990-03-15/1990-06-11		[198][199]
Minister of the environment	Yitzhak Shamir	1990-06-11/1992-07-13		[198][199]
	Ora Namir	1992-07-13/1992-12-31	Rabin (A)	[198][199]
	Yossi Sarid	1992-12-31/1995-11-04		[198][199]
		1995-11-04/1996-06-18	Peres (A)	[198][199]
	Rafael Eitan	1996-06-18/1999-07-06	Netanyahu (L)	[198][199]
	Dalia Itzik	1999-07-06/2001-03-07	Barak (A)	[198][199]
	Tzachi Hanegbi	2001-03-07/2003-02-28	Sharon (L/K)	[198][199]
	Yehudit Naot	2003-02-28/2004-10-17		[198][199]
	Ilan Shalgi (acting)	2004-10-17/2004-11-29		[198][199]
		2004-11-29/2004-12-04		[198][199]
none		2004-12-04/2005-01-10		[198][199]
Minister of the environment	Shalom Simhon	2005-01-10/2005-11-23		[198][199]
none		2005-11-23/2006-01-18		[198][199]
Minister of the environment	Gideon Ezra	2006-01-18/2006-04-14		[198][199]
		2006-04-14/2006-05-04	Olmert (K)	[198][199]
Minister of the environmental protection		2006-05-04/		[198][199]

Italy[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and public works	Paolo Barbatta	1996-05-01		[72]
Minister of environment	Altero Matteoli

Jamaica[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of lands and environment	Dean Peart

Japan[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Environment Agency Director General	Kenji Manabe	1998-07-30/1999-01-14	Obuchi	[200][201]
	Kayoko Shimizu	1999-10-05/		[202]
		2000-04-05/	Mori	[203]
Minister of the Environment	Yoriko Kawaguchi	2000-07/		[204]
		2001-04-26/2002-02	Koizumi	[205]
	Hiroshi Ohki	2002-02-08/		[206]
	Shunichi Suzuki	2002-09-30/2003-11-19
	Yuriko Koike	2003-09-22/2005-10-31/		[207][208]
	Masatoshi Wakabayashi	2006-09-26/2007-08-27	Abe	[209][210]
	Ichiro Kamoshita	2007-08-27/2007-09-26		[211]
		2007-09-26/2008-08-02	Fukuda	[212]
	Tetsuo Saito	2008-08-02/2008-09-24
		2008-09-24/2009-09-16	Aso
	Sakihito Ozawa	2009-09-16/2010-06-08	Hatoyama
		2010-06-08/2010-09-21	Kan
	Ryu Matsumoto	2010-09-21/2011-10-02
	Goshi Hosono	2011-10-02/2012-10-01	Noda
	Hiroyuki Nagahama	2012-10-01/2012-12-26
	Nobuteru Ishihara	2012-12-26/2014-09-03	Abe
	Yoshio Mochizuki	2014-09-03/2015-10-07
	Tamayo Marukawa	2015-10-07/2016-08-03
	Koichi Yamamoto	2016-08-03/2017-08-03
	Masaharu Nakagawa	2017-08-03/2018-10-02
	Yoshiaki Harada	2018-10-02/2019-09-11
	Shinjirō Koizumi	2019-09-11/		[213]

Jordan[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of the environment	Alia Hattough-Bouran
	Khalid al-Irani
	Hazim Malhas
	Nasser Shraideh
	Taher Shakhashir
	Yaseen Khayyat
	Nayef Al-Fayez

Kazakhstan[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environmental protection	Aytkul Samakova

Kenya[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for environment, natural resources, and wildlife	Newton Kulundu	/2004-04-28/
Minister for environment and natural resources	Kalonzo Musyoka	/2005-01-14/
	Kivutha Kibwana	/2006-11-06/
Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Water and Energy	Judy Wakhungu	/2013-04-25/

Kiribati[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for environment, lands, and agricultural development	Martin Tofinga

Kuwait[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Kyrgyzstan[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Laos[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Latvia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment protection	Raimonds Vejonis

Lebanon[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Fares Boueiz
	Yacoub Sarraf		Siniora

Lesotho[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of tourism, environment, and culture	Lebohang Ntsinyi		Mosisili

Liberia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Libya[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Liechtenstein[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment, agriculture, and forestry	Alois Ospelt
Minister for environmental affairs, land-use planning, agriculture, and forestry	Hugo Quaderer		Hasler

Lithuania[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Artūras Paulauskas	2008 February 1/	Kirkilas
	Arūnas Kundrotas	2006-07-04/2008-02-01	Kirkilas
		2006-06-01/2006-07-04	Balčytis
		2001-07-04/2006-06-01	Brazauskas

Luxembourg[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
		1959-02-26/1974-06-15	Werner (C)	[214]
Minister of public health and the environment	Émile Krieps	1974-06-15/1979-07-16	Thorn (D)	[214][215]
Minister of the environment and tourism	Josy Barthel	1974-06-15/1979-07-16		2 minis.[214][215]
Minister of the environment		1979-07-16/1984-07-20	Werner (C)	[214][215]
	Robert Krieps	1984-07-20/1989-07-14	Santer (C)	[214][215]
Minister of land and the environment	Alex Bodry	1989-07-14/1995-01-26		[214][215]
Minister of the environment	Johny Lahure	1994-07-13/1995-01-26		2 minis.[214][215]
		1995-01-26/1998-01-30	Juncker (C)	[214][215]
	Alex Bodry	1998-01-30/1999-08-07		[214][215]
	Charles Goerens	1999-08-07/2004-08-02		[214][215][216]
	Lucien Lux	2004-08-02/		[214][216]

Madagascar[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Charles Sylvain Rabotoarison

Malawi[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of mines, natural resources, and environmental affairs	Davies Katsonga
Minister of natural resources and environmental affairs	Uladi Mussa
Minister of mines, natural resources, and environmental affairs	Henry Chimunthu Banda

Malaysia[edit]

Title	Minister		Incumbency	Under		Notes
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment		Adenan Satem (BN-PBB)	2004-03-27/2006-02-14		Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (BN-UMNO)
		Azmi Khalid (BN-UMNO)	2006-02-14/2008-03-18
		Douglas Uggah Embas (BN-PBB)	2008-03-17/2009-04-03
			2009-04-10/2013-05-16		Najib Razak (BN-UMNO)
		Palanivel Govindasamy (BN-MIC)	2013-05-16/2015-07-29
		Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar (BN-PBB)	2015-07-29/2018-05-09
Minister of Energy, Technology, Science, Climate Change and Environment		Yeo Bee Yin (PH-DAP)	2018-07-02/2020-02-24		Mahathir Mohamad (PH-BERSATU)
Minister of Environment and Water		Tuan Ibrahim (PN-PAS)	2020-03-10/2021-08-16		Muhyiddin Yassin (PN-BERSATU)
			2021-08-30/		Ismail Sabri Yaakob (BN-UMNO)

Maldives[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of home affairs, housing, and environment	Ismail Shafeeu
Minister of environment, energy, and water	Ahmed Abdulla

Mali[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Nancoman Keita

Malta[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for environment and rural affairs	George Pullicino

Marshall Islands[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of health and environment	Alvin Jacklick

Mauritania[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of Rural Development and Environment	Ahmedou Ould Ahmedou		Boubacar
	Gandega Silly		Boubacar

Mauritius[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Rajesh Bhagwan
Minister of environment and national development unit	Anil Kumar Bachoo		Ramgoolam

Mexico[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Secretary of the Environment	Juan Rafael Elvira Quezada		Felipe Calderón

Federated States of Micronesia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none			Urusemal

Moldova[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment, construction, and territory development	Gheorghe Duca
Minister of environment and natural resources	Constantin Mihailescu		Tarlev

Monaco[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environmental affairs and town planning	Gilles Tonelli		Proust

Mongolia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and nature	Ulambayaryn Barsbold

Montenegro[edit]

See Serbia and Montenegro

Morocco[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of territorial development, water, and environment	Mohamed El Yazghi

Mozambique[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environmental coordination	John Kachamila

Myanmar[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Namibia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and tourism	Philemon Malima
	Willem Konjore		Angula

Nauru[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for environment	Kinza Cloudumar
none			Scotty

Nepal[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of population and environment	Bachaspati Devkota
Minister of environment, science, and technology	Prakash Koirala		Gyanendra

Netherlands[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of Health and Environment	Dr. Louis Stuyt	1971–07–06/1973–05–11	Biesheuvel
	Irene Vorrink	1973–05–11/1977–12–19	Den Uyl
	Dr. Leendert Ginjaar	1977–12–19/1981–09–11	Van Agt
	Til Gardeniers-Berendsen	1981–09–11/1982–11–04
Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment	Dr. Pieter Winsemius	1982–11–04/1986–07–14	Lubbers
	Ed Nijpels	1986–07–14/1989–11–07
	Hans Alders	1989–11–07/1994–08–22
	Margreeth de Boer	1994–08–22/1998–08–03	Kok
	Jan Pronk	1998–08–03/2002–07–22
	Henk Kamp	2002–07–22/2003–05–27	Balkenende
	Sybilla Dekker	2003–05–27/2006–09–21
	Karla Peijs	2006–09–21/2006–09–26		Acting
	Dr. Pieter Winsemius	2006–09–26/2007–02–22
	Dr. Jacqueline Cramer	2007–02–22/2010–02–23
	Tineke Huizinga	2010–02–23/2010–10–14
Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment	Melanie Schultz van Haegen	2010–10–14/2017–10–26	Rutte
Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy	Eric Wiebes	2017–10–26/2021–01–15
	Cora van Nieuwenhuizen	2021–01–15/2021–01–20		Acting
	Bas van 't Wout	2021–01–20/2021–05–25
	Stef Blok	2021–05–25/Present

Netherlands Antilles[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none			Ys

New Zealand[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for the Environment	Marian Hobbs	1999-12-10/2001-02-23
		2001-02-23/2001-03-28
	Marian Hobbs	2001-03-28/2005-10-19
	David Benson-Pope	2005-10-19/

Nicaragua[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment andnatural resources	Arturo Harding		Bolaños

Niger[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment, water resources, and desertification control	Adamou Namata
	Abdou Labo		Amadou

Nigeria[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Bala Mande
	Iyorchia Ayu
Minister of the environment and housing	Halima Alao	2007-07-26/	Yar'Adua	[217]
Minister of the environment	John Odey	/2010-04-06/		[218]

North Korea[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of land and environment protection	Il-son Chang

North Macedonia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Ljubomir Janev
	Zoran Sapuric

Norway[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of the environment	Olav Gjærevoll	1972-05-08/1972-10-18	Bratteli 1
	Trygve Haugeland	1972-10-18/1973-03-05	Korvald
	Helga Gitmark	1973-03-05/1973-10-16
	Tor Halvorsen	1973-10-16/1974-09-06	Bratteli 2
	Gro Harlem Brundtland	1974-09-06/1976-01-15
		1976-01-15/1979-10-08	Nordli
	Rolf Arthur Hansen	1979-10-08/1981-02-04
		1981-02-04/1981-10-14	Brundtland 1
	Wenche Frogn Sellæg	1981-10-14/1983-06-08	Willoch 1
	Rakel Surlien	1983-06-08/1986-05-09	Willoch 2
	Sissel Rønbeck	1986-05-09/1989-10-16	Brundtland 2
	Kristin Hille Valla	1989-10-16/1990-11-03	Syse
	Thorbjørn Berntsen	1990-11-03/1996-10-25	Brundtland 3
		1996-10-25/1997-10-17	Jagland
	Guro Fjellanger	1997-10-17/2000-03-17	Bondevik 1
	Siri Bjerke	2000-03-17/2001-10-19	Stoltenberg 1
	Børge Brende	2001-10-19/2004-06-18	Bondevik 2
	Knut Arild Hareide	2004-06-18/2005-10-17
	Helen Bjørnøy	2005-10-17/2007-10-18	Stoltenberg 2
	Erik Solheim	2007-10-18/2008-04-04/		[9]

Oman[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of regional municipalities, environment, and water resources	Khamis bin Mubarak bin Isa al-Alawi
	Abdallah bin Muhammad bin Abdallah al-Ruwas

Pakistan[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for environment and urban affairs	Anwar Saifullah Khan	/1992-06-03/	Sharif
Minister for environment, local government, and rural development	Shahida Jameel
Minister for environment	Tahir Iqbal
	Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi	2008-03-31/	Gillani	[219]
Minister for environment	Rana Muhammad Farooq Saeed Khan	since 4/14/2012 incumbent

Palau[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Palestine[edit]

Panama[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of Environment a.i.	Silvano Vergara	2013-01-24/2014-07-01	Ricardo Martinelli B.
Minister of Environment	Mirey Heras	2014-07-02/2017-03-31	Juan Carlos Varela
Minister of Environment	Emilio Sempris	2017-04-01/2019-07-01	Juan Carlos Varela
Minister of Environment	Milsiades Comcepcion	2019-07-02/	Laurentino Cortizo

Papua New Guinea[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and conservation	William Duma

Paraguay[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Peru[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of the environment	Manuel Pulgar-Vidal		Ollanta Humala

Philippines[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Secretary of environment and natural resources	Michael Defensor
	Joselito Atienza	/2009-12		[220]
Acting	Eleazar Quinto	2009-12/2010-02	Arroyo	[220]
	Horacio Ramos	2010-02/		[220]

Poland[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environmental protection, natural resources, and forestry	Jan Szyszko	1997/
Minister of the environment	Antoni Tokarczuk	1999-10-19/2001-10-19	Buzek
	Stanisław Żelichowski	2001-10-19/2003-03-03	Miller
	Czesław Śleziak	2003-03-03/2004-05-02
	Jerzy Swatoń	2004-05-02/2005-04-25	Belka
	Marek Belka (acting)	2005-04-25/2005-05-25
	Tomasz Podgajniak	2005-05-24/2005-10-31
	Jan Szyszko	2006-07-14/2007-09-07	Marcinkiewicz
		2005-10-31/2006-07-14	Kaczyński
	Jarosław Kaczyński (acting)	2007-09-07/2007-09-11
	Jan Szyszko	2007-09-11/2007-11-16
	Maciej Nowicki	2007-11-16/2010-02-01	Tusk
	Andrzej Kraszewski	2010-02-02/

Portugal[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for environment and natural resources	Carlos Borrego	/1992-06-03/	Silva
Minister of environment and of territorial planning	Luis Nobre Guedes	2004-07-17/2005-03-12
	Francisco Nunes Correia	2005-03-12/

Qatar[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
	none

Romania[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and water resources	Speranta Maria Ianculescu
	Sulfina Barbu

Russia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for environmental protection	Victor Danilov-Danilyan	/1996-05-01/		[72]

Rwanda[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of Lands, Resettlement, and Environment	Drocella Mugorwewera
Minister of Environment	Vincent Biruta	2017-08-30
Minister of Lands and Forestry	Francine Tumushime	2017-08-30

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of Water and Environment	Adda Brahim Ahmeem	2023-02-14	Ghali	[221]

Saint Kitts and Nevis[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of health and environment	Earl Asim Martin

Saint Lucia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for physical development, housing, and environment	Ignatius Jean

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of health and the environment	Douglas Slater

Samoa[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		1981	Tupua	[222]
		1985	Kolone	[223]
		1991	Alesana	[224]
Minister of natural resources and environment	Sale Tagaloa Tagaloa

San Marino[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Secretary of territory, environment, and agriculture	Gian Carlo Venturini

São Tomé and Príncipe[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of public works, infrastructure, natural resources, and environment	Joaquim Rafael Branco
Secretary of state for environment, territorial security, and nature conservation	Arlindo de Carvalho

Saudi Arabia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Scotland[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for transport and environment	Sarah Boyack	1999–2000	Dewar (L)
Minister of the environment, sport and culture	Sam Galbraith	2000–2001	McLeish (L)
Minister for the environment and rural development	Ross Finnie	2001–2007	McConnell (L)
Minister for Environment	Michael Russell	2007-05-17/	Salmond (SNP)	[225]
Minister for Environment and Climate Change	Paul Wheelhouse	6 September 2012 to 21 November 2014		[226]
Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform	Aileen McLeod	21 November 2014−18 May 2016	Sturgeon (SNP)
Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform	Roseanna Cunningham	18 May 2016−	Sturgeon (SNP)

Senegal[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and conservation	Modou Diagne
	Thierno Lo	/2006-01-24/2006-01-27/

Serbia[edit]

See also #Serbia and Montenegro

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of science and environmental protection	Aleksandar Popović	2006/	Koštunica

Serbia and Montenegro[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of science and environmental protection	Aleksandar Popović	2004	Koštunica
Minister of environmental protection and urban planning (Montenegro)	Boro Vucinic

Seychelles[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Ronnie Jumeau
Minister of foreign affairs, planning, and environment	Jeremie Bonnelame

Sierra Leone[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of country planning, forestry, environment, and social welfare	Alfred Bobson Sesay

Singapore[edit]

Title	Minister		Incumbency	Under		Notes
Minister for the Environment		Lim Kim San (PAP)	1972/1975 & 1979/1981		Lee Kuan Yew (PAP)
		Edmund William Barker (PAP)	1979/1981
		Ong Pang Boon (PAP)	1981/1985
		Ahmad Mattar (PAP)	1985/1993
					Goh Chok Tong (PAP)
		Mah Bow Tan (PAP)	1993-07-07/1995-04-16
		Teo Chee Hean (PAP)	1995-04-16/1996-01-14 (acting) & 1996-01-15/1997-01-24
		Yeo Cheow Tong (PAP)	1997-01-25/1999-06-02
		Lee Yock Suan (PAP)	1999-06-03/2000-09-30
		Lim Swee Say (PAP)	2000-10-01/2001-11-23 (acting) 2001-11-23/2004-08-12
Minister for the Environment and Water Resources		Yaacob Ibrahim (PAP)	2004-08-12/2011-05-20		Lee Hsien Loong (PAP)
		Vivian Balakrishnan (PAP)	2011-05-21/2015-09-30
		Masagos Zulkifli (PAP)	2015-10-01/2020-07-26
Minister for Sustainability and the Environment		Grace Fu (PAP)	2020-07-26/

Slovakia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	László Sólymos		Robert Fico Peter Pellegrini

Slovenia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and town planning	Janez Kopac
Minister of environment and spatial planning	Janez Podobnik		Janez Jansa

Solomon Islands[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of forestry, environment, and conservation	David Holosivi

Somalia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Abdik usman Abubakar
	Mohamed Mahamud Hayd		(Buri Mohamed Hamza) Minister Of Environment 2009

(Buri Mohamed Hamza) State Minister Of Environment 2015

South Africa[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of planning and the environment and of statistics	J. J. Loots	/1973-12/1975-04-01/	Vorster (N)	[227][228]
Minister of health, of planning and the environment, and of statistics	S. W. van der Merwe	/1976-06/1978-11-20		[229][230][231]
	J. C. Heunis	1978-11-20/1979-02-01		[231]
Minister of environmental planning and energy		1979-02-01/1979-06-20/		[231]
	Frederik Willem de Klerk	1979-06-20/		[231]
Minister of mines and of environmental planning and energy		/1979-03/	Botha (N)	[232]
Minister of water affairs, forestry, and environmental conservation	A. J. Raubenheimer	/1980-04/		[233]
	C. V. van der Merwe	/1981-04/		[234]
Minister of environmental affairs		/1982-04/		[235]
Minister of environment affairs and fisheries	S. A. S. Hayward	/1983-06/		[236]
Minister of environmental affairs		/1984/		[237]
Minister of environment affairs and tourism	J. W. E. Wiley	/1984-09-16/1985-12-31/		[238][239]
	G. J. Kotzé	/1987-05-31/		[240]
Minister of environment affairs and of water affairs		/1988-06-30/		[241]
Minister of home affairs and of environmental affairs	Louis Pienaar	/1992-06-01/	De Klerk (N)	[242]
Minister of environment affairs and of water affairs	J. A. van Wyk	/1993-04-01/		[243]
Minister of environment affairs and of water affairs and forestry		1993-12-31/		[244]
Minister of environmental affairs and tourism	Dawie de Villiers	1995-05-31	Mandela (A)	[245]
	Pallo Jordan	1996-05/1999-06		[246][247]
	Valli Moosa	1999-06/2004-04	Mbeki (A)	Kyoto WSSD[18][248][249][250]
	Marthinus van Schalkwyk	2004-04-29/2008-09-24		[251][252][253]
		2008-09-24/2009-05-10	Motlanthe (A)	[254][255]
Minister of water and environmental affairs	Buyelwa Sonjica	2009-05-10/2010-11-01	Zuma (A)	[255]
	Edna Molewa	2010-11-01/		[256]

South Korea[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Administrator of the environmental protection agency	Bark Seung-Gyu	1980-01-01/1980-07-02
	Bark Jun-Ik	1980-07-19/1983-07-09
	Choe Suh-Il	1983-07-09/1986-05-24
	Bark Pan-Jae	1986-05-24/1988-05-20
	Lee Sang-Bae	1988-05-20/1989-07-21
	Lee Jae-Chang	1989-07-21/1990-01-03
Minister of the environment	Jo Gyeong-Sik	1990-01-03/1990-09-19
	Heo Nam-Hoon	1990-09-19/1991-04-26
	Gwon Lee-Hyuk	1991-04-26/1992-06-26
	Lee Jae-Chang	1992-06-26/1993-12-22
	Hwang San-Seong	1993-12-22/1994-12-21
	Kim Jung-Wi	1994-12-21/1995-12-21
	Jeong Jong-Taek	1995-12-21/1996-12-20
	Kang Hyeon-Uk	1996-12-20/1997-08-06
	Yun Yeo-Jun	1997-08-06/1998-03-03
	Choe Jae-Uk	1998-03-03/1999-05-24
	Son Sook	1999-05-24/1999-06-25
	Kim Myung-Ja	1999-06-27/2003-02-27
	Han Myung-Sook	2003-02-27/2004-02-16
	Kwak Kyul-Ho	2004-02-18/2005-06-28
	Lee Jae-Yong	2005-06-29/2006-03-21
	Lee Chi-Beom	2006-04-07/2007-09-04
	Lee Kyoo-Yong	2006-09-21/2008-02-29
	Lee Maan-Ee	2008-02-29-present

Spain[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment	Cristina Narbona	2004-04-18/2006-11-15/	Zapatero

Sri Lanka[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of Environment	Ahamed Nazeer Zainulabdeen	18 April 2022		[194]

Sudan[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and urban planning	al-Tigani Adam Tahir

Suriname[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Swaziland[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for tourism and environment	Thandie Shongwe

Sweden[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of the environment and energy	Birgitta Dahl	1987-10-01/1991-10-04	Carlsson
Minister of the environment	Olof Johansson	1991-10-04/1991-11-30	Bildt
Minister of the environment and nature		1991-12-01/1994-06-16
	Görel Thurdin	1994-06-16/1994-10-02
	Karl-Erik Olsson	1994-10-03/1994-10-07
	Anna Lindh	1994-10-07/1994-12-31	Carlsson
Minister of the environment		1995-01-01/1996-03-22
		1996-03-22/1998-10-07	Persson
	Kjell Larsson	1998-10-07/2002-10-21
	Lena Sommestad	2002-10-21/2004-11-01
Minister for the environment	Andreas Carlgren	2006-10-06/2011-09-29	Reinfeldt	[257]
	Lena Ek	2011-09-29/ incumbent

Switzerland[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Head of the federal department of environment, transport, energy and communications	Adolf Ogi	1988	Stich
		1989	Delamuraz
		1990	Koller
		1991	Cotti
		1992	Felber
		1993	Ogi
		1994	Stich
		1995	Villiger
	Moritz Leuenberger	1995
		1996	Delamuraz
		1997	Koller
		1998	Cotti
		1999	Dreifuss
		2000	Ogi
		2001	Leuenberger
		2002	Villiger
		2003	Couchepin
		2004	Deiss
		2005	Schmid
		2006	Leuenberger
		2007	Calmy-Rey
		2008/2008-12-11/	Couchepin	[97]
		2009	Merz

Syria[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of local government and environment	Hilal al-Atrash

Republic of China (Taiwan)[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Environment Protection Agency Chief	Winston Dang	2007	Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁)
Environment Protection Agency Chief	Stephen Shen (沈世宏, Shen Shihong)	since 2008-05-20	Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九)

Tajikistan[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environmental protection	Usmonqul Shokirov

Tanzania[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of tourism, natural resources, and environment	Zakhia Meghji
Minister for environment	Batilda Burian	/2009-12-17/		[258]

Thailand[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of natural resources and environment	Prapat Panyachatraksa	2002-10-03/2004-03-10	Thaksin Shinawatra
	Suwit Khunkitti	2004-03-10/2005-03-11
	Youngyut Tiyapairach	2005-03-11/2006-09-19
	Kasem Sanitwong Na Ayutthaya	2006-10-08/2007-10-02	Surayud Chulanont
	Anongwan Thepsuthin	2008-02-06/2008-12-02	Samak Sundaravej
			Somchai Wongsawat
	Suwit Khunkitti	2008-12-20/2011-08-09	Abhisit Vejjajiva
	Preecha Rengsomboonsuk	2011-08-09/2013-06-30	Yingluck Shinawatra
	Vichet Kasemthongsri	2013-06-30/2014-05-22
	Dapong Rattanasuwan	2014-08-30/2015-08-19	Prayut Chan-o-cha
	Surasak Kanchanarat	2015-08-19/2019-05-08
	Warawut Silpa-archa	2019-07-10/

Timor-Leste[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for development and the environment	Mari Alkatiri		Alkatiri

Togo[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and forest resources	Dbaba Bale

Tonga[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Trinidad and Tobago[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of public utilities and the environment	Pennelope Beckles

Tunisia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for agriculture, environment, and water resources	Habib Haddad

Turkey[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environment and forestry	Osman Pepe

Turkmenistan[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of environmental protection	Matkarim Rajapov

Tuvalu[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Uganda[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of water, lands, and environment	Kahinda Otafiire
Minister of water and environment	Jessica Eriyo	/2006-11-16/

Ukraine[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Head of State Nature Protection Committee	Dina Protsenko	1978 to 1988	Liashko
Minister of the Environment	Vasyl Dzharty	/2007-02-28/	Yanukovych
Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources	Vasyl Shevchuk	2002-11-30 to 2003-06-06	Kuchma
Minister of the Environment and Nuclear Safety	Vasyl Shevchuk	1998-08-23 to 2000-01-31	Kuchma

Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi - Minister of Climate Change and Environment

United Kingdom[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Secretary of state for the environment	Peter Walker	1970-10-15/1972-11-05	Heath (C)
	Geoffrey Rippon	1972-11-05/1974-03-04
	Anthony Crosland	1974-03-05/1976-04-08	Wilson (L)
	Peter Shore	1976-04-08/1979-05-04	Callaghan (L)
	Michael Heseltine	1979-05-05/1983-01-06	Thatcher (C)
	Tom King	1983-01-06/1983-06-11
	Patrick Jenkin	1983-06-11/1985-09-02
	Kenneth Baker	1985-09-02/1986-05-21
	Nicholas Ridley	1986-05-21/1989-07-24
	Chris Patten	1989-07-24/1990-11-28
	Michael Heseltine	1990-11-28/1992-04-11	Major (C)
	Michael Howard	1992-04-11/1993-05-27		Rio
	John Gummer	1993-05-27/1997-05-02
Secretary of state for the environment, transport and the regions	John Prescott	1997-05-02/2001-06-08	Blair (L)
Secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs	Margaret Beckett	2001-06-08/2006-05-05
	David Miliband	2006-05-05/2007-06-27
	Hilary Benn	2007-06-28/2010-05-11	Brown (L)
	Caroline Spelman	2010-05-12/2012-09-04	Cameron (LD/C Coalition)
	Owen Paterson	2012-09-04/2014-07-14
	Liz Truss	2014-07-15/2016-07-14	Cameron (C)
	Andrea Leadsom	2016-07-14/2017-06-11	May (C)
	Michael Gove	2017-06-11/2019-07-24
	Theresa Villiers	2019-07-24/2020-02-13	Johnson (C)
	George Eustice	2020-02-13/2022-09-06
	Ranil Jayawardena	2022-09-06/Incumbent	Truss (C)

United States[edit]

See United States Secretary of the Interior#List of secretaries of the interior.

Uruguay[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of housing and environment	Eneida de León

Uzbekistan[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Chairman of the state committee for environmental protection	Nariman Umarov[259]

Vatican[edit]

See Holy See

Vanuatu[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none

Venezuela[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of Environment and Natural Resources	Ana Elisa Osorio		Hugo Chavez

Vietnam[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister of natural resources and environment	Mai Ai Truc
	Pham Khoi Nguyen	/2009-12-13/		[260]

Wales[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
Minister for environment, planning, and countryside	Carwyn Jones	2000–2007	Rhodri Morgan
Minister for environment, sustainability, and housing	Jane Davidson	2007/

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Yemen[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		1980	Ghani	[261]
		1986		[262]
		1991	al-Attas	[263]
Minister of tourism and environment	Abd al-Malik al-Iryani
Minister of water and environment	Muhammad Luft al-Iryani

South Yemen[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		1980	Muhammad	[264]
		1986	Numan	[265]

Zambia[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		1980	Lisulo	[266]
		1985	Musokotwane	[267]
		1991	Masheke	[268]
Minister of environment, natural resources, and tourism	Patrick Kalifungwa

Zimbabwe[edit]

Title	Minister	Incumbency	Under	Notes
none		1980	Mugabe (Z)	[269]
		1985		[270]
Minister of environment and tourism	Herbert Murerwa	1991		[271]
		/1993-06-24/		[194]
	Chen Chimutengwende	/1996-05-01/		[72]
	Simon Moyo	/1999-12-20/		[272]
	Francis Nhema	2006/2009-02-13/		[273][274]

See also[edit]

• List of environmental ministries
• List of ministers of climate change
• List of ministries of forestry

References[edit]

Notes[edit]