List of ministers of climate change

A list of ministers of climate change or officials in charge of cabinet positions with portfolios dealing primarily with climate change and issues related to mitigation of global warming.

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A

 Australia
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Minister for climate change and water Penny Wong (La) 2007-12-03/2008-12-11 Rudd (La) [1][2][3][4]
Minister for climate change, energy efficiency, and water 2010-03-08/2010-06-24 [1][5]
2010-06-24/2010-09-14 Gillard (La) [5]
Minister for climate change and energy efficiency Greg Combet 2010-09-14/ [6][7][8]

B

 Belgium
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Minister for climate and energy Paul Magnette (S) 2007-12/2008-03-20 Verhofstadt (O) [9][10][11][12]
2008-03-20/2008-12-11/ Leterme (C) [13][14]
2008-12-30/2009-11 Van Rompuy (C) [15][16]
2009-11-25/ Leterme (C) [17][18]

C

 Canada
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine Mary McKenna 2015-11-04/ Justin Trudeau

D

 Denmark
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Minister for climate and energy Connie Hedegaard (C) 2007-11-23/2009 A.F. Rasmussen (V) [19][20][21][22]

E

 EU
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
European commissioner for climate action Connie Hedegaard (P) 2010-02-09/ Barroso (P)

[23][24][25]

G

 Greece
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change Tina Birbili (P) 2009-10-07 Papandreou (P) [26][27][28]

I

 Ireland
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Vacant Enda Kenny (FG)

 India
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Ministry of Environment and Forests (India) & ICFRE
Prakash Javadekar

M

 Malaysia
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Adenan Satem (BN) 2004-03-27/2006-02-14 Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Azmi Khalid (BN) 2006-02-14/2008-03-18
Douglas Uggah Embas (BN) 2008-03-17/2009
Douglas Uggah Embas (BN) 2009/2013-05-15 Najib Razak (BN)
Palanivel Govindasamy (BN) 2013-05-16/2015-07-29
Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar (BN) 2015-07-29/2018-05-10
Minister of Energy, Technology, Science, Climate Change and Environment Yeo Bee Yin (PH) 2018-07-02/ Mahathir Mohamad

N

 New Zealand
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Minister responsible for Climate Change Issues David Parker (L) 2005-10-19/2006-03-21 Clark (L) [29][30][31]
Pete Hodgson (L) 2006-03-21/2006-05-03 [30][32]
David Parker (L) 2006-05-03/2008-11-19 [29][30]
Minister for Climate Change Issues Nick Smith (N) 2008-11-19/2012-03-21 Key (N) [30][33][34]
Minister responsible for International Climate Change Negotiations Tim Groser (N) 2010-01-27/2012-02-04 [35]
Minister for Climate Change Issues 2012-02-04/2015-12-14
Paula Bennett (N) 2015-12-14/2017-10-26
English (N)
James Shaw (G) 2017-10-26 Ardern (L)

 Niue
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Minister in charge of climate change Terry Coe /1997-12-09/1998-11-12/ Lui [36][37][38]
none /2007/ Young Vivian [39]
Minister of meteorological services and climate change Tufukia Talagi /2008/ Talagi [40]

P

 Pakistan
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Federal Minister of Climate Change Mushahid Ullah Khan (PMLN) 2015-06-2/ Sharif (PMLN) [41]

 Portugal
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Minister for the Environment and Climate Action João Pedro Matos Fernandes (PS) 2019-10-26/ Costa (PS) [42]

R

 Romania
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Minister of Environment and Climate Change Rovana Plumb (PSD) 2012-05-7/ Ponta (PSD)

S

 Scotland
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Minister for transport, infrastructure, and climate change Stewart Stevenson (N) 2007-05-17/2010-12 Salmond (N) [43][44]
Minister for environment and climate change Roseanna Cunningham (N) 2010-12/ [45][46]

U

 United Kingdom
Title Minister Incumbency Under Notes
Secretary of state for energy and climate change Ed Miliband (L) 2008-10-03/2008-12-11/ Brown (L) [47][48]
Chris Huhne (LD) 2010-05-12/2012-02-03 Cameron (C) [49][50]
Edward Davey (LD) 2012-02-03/ [50]

See also

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