Environment Minister

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Environment Minister or Environment Minister is the short form of the title of the minister who heads the Environment Ministry .

Germany

At the state and federal level, environment ministers are the political heads of the environment ministries. In the city-states of Berlin , Bremen and Hamburg the corresponding title is Senator .

The Federal Environment Minister (official name: Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety ) is the head of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety . The ministry was established in 1986 in response to the Chernobyl disaster . As a member of the Federal Government, the Federal Environment Minister is subordinate to the Federal Chancellor and, like every Federal Minister , is bound by the Federal Chancellor's authority to issue guidelines. Two Parliamentary State Secretaries , one State Secretary and more than 800 other employees report to the Federal Environment Minister .

The current German Federal Environment Minister in the black-red coalition led by Angela Merkel has been the SPD politician Svenja Schulze since March 15, 2018 .

See also : List of German Environment Ministers  and List of Acting German State Environment Ministers

Austria

In Austria, the Environment Minister heads the Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology , also known as the Ministry of Climate Protection . It was formed in 2020 from the former Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology after the environmental department was spun off from the Ministry of Agriculture . The current Austrian Federal Environment Minister in Cabinet Kurz II has been Leonore Gewessler ( Greens ) since January 29, 2020 .

See also : Environment Minister of the Republic of Austria

Switzerland

In Switzerland, Federal Councilor Simonetta Sommaruga has headed the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication since 2019 , one of which is the Federal Office for the Environment .

Other states

Before the establishment of independent environmental ministries, the environmental authorities were assigned to other ministries, in Germany for example the Ministry of the Interior . This is still the case in many countries today. There have been ministries of the environment in Mexico since 1994, in Japan since 2001 and in Belgium .