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Sveinung Rotevatn (born 15 May 1987) is a Norwegian politician for the
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. Rotevatn comes from
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, and has a master's degree in law from the
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. He served as Minister of Climate and the Environment from 2020 to 2021.Romerikes Blad is a local newspaper published in Lillestrøm, Norway. It covers the Romerike district. History and profile was established by Martin Julius Halvorsen in 1902 in Jessheim under the name ''Akershusingen'', and was affiliated with the Norwegian ...
"> Prior to that, he served as a state secretary at the same department from 2018 to 2020 under then minister Ola Elvestuen.


Career


Young Liberals

Rotevatn became the leader of the
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, the Liberal Party's youth wing, in 2010 and was succeeded in October 2013 by Tord Hustveit.


Other

In 2013, called him the biggest political talent in Norway.


Parliament

Rotevatn was elected an MP from the
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county constituency in the
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. He failed to win re-election in the 2017 election, but was later appointed State Secretary to the Department of Justice and Public Security when the Liberal Party went into coalition government with the Conservative Party and the Progress Party on 17 January 2018. He was re-elected to the Storting in the 2021 election, this time from Hordaland. In January 2022, both he and his successor as environment minister,
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, agreed that Norwegian politicians had not done enough to fight climate change. Rotevatn stated: "I take responsibility for every ton of CO2 we emitted and did not emit when I was Minister of Climate. I'm glad the emissions went down when the Liberal Party ruled, but it has not gone down fast enough".


Minister of Climate and the Environment

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Party deputy leader

In May 2020, he announced his intention to run for the party leadership in September to succeed outgoing leader
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. At the time, he became the first person to announce his run for leader following Grande's decision to resign. On 23 August, he was designated deputy leader of the party, with
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as second deputy and Melby as party leader, unanimously by the party's election committee. At the party conference in September, he was elected first deputy leader, with Melby as leader and Raja as second deputy, unopposed.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rotevatn, Sveinung 1987 births Living people Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Ministers of climate and the environment of Norway Members of the Storting 2013–2017 Members of the Storting 2021–2025