The Minister of Climate and the Environment ( no, Klima- og miljøministeren) is a
Councilor of State and Chief of
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
's
Ministry of the Environment. The current minister is
Espen Barth Eide
Espen Barth Eide (born 1 May 1964, in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician and political scientist. He is currently serving as the Minister of Climate and the Environment in Jonas Gahr Støre's government. He has been a been a member of the Norwegian ...
. The ministry is responsible for environmental issues, including influencing environmental impacts on other ministries. Subordinate agencies include the
Directorate for Cultural Heritage, the
Polar Institute, the
Environment Agency and the
Mapping Authority.
The minister and minister post were established on 8 May 1972. The title was known as the Minister of the Environment until 2013.
Nineteen people from six parties have held the position.
Thorbjørn Berntsen of the
Labour Party has held the position the longest, a week short of seven years.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Brundtland (; born Gro Harlem, 20 April 1939) is a Norwegian politician ( Arbeiderpartiet), who served three terms as the 29th prime minister of Norway (1981, 1986–89, and 1990–96) and as the director-general of the World Health Organizat ...
, who held the position for five years, later became
Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...
.
Erik Solheim
Erik Solheim (born 18 January 1955) is a Norwegian diplomat and former politician. He served in the Norwegian government from 2005 to 2012 as Minister of International Development and Minister of the Environment, and as Under-Secretary-General of ...
of the
Socialist Left Party held the position concurrently with being
Minister of International Development
An International development minister is a position in many governments responsible for development aid and international development.
Country-related articles and lists
*: Minister for International Development
*: Minister of International D ...
.
Key
The following lists the minister, their party, date of assuming and leaving office, their tenure in years and days, and the cabinet they served in.
Ministers
References
{{Ministers of Norway
Climate and the Environment
1972 establishments in Norway