Minister of Climate and the Environment (Norway)

The Minister of Climate and the Environment (Norwegian: Klima- og miljøministeren) is a Councilor of State and Chief of Norway's Ministry of the Environment. The current minister is Andreas Bjelland Eriksen. The ministry is responsible for environmental issues, including influencing environmental impacts on other ministries.^[1] Subordinate agencies include the Directorate for Cultural Heritage, the Polar Institute, the Environment Agency and the Mapping Authority.^[2]

Minister of Climate and the Environment of Norway
Klima- og miljøvernministeren
Incumbent Andreas Bjelland Eriksen since 16 October 2023
Ministry of the Environment
Member of	Council of State
Seat	Oslo
Nominator	Prime Minister
Appointer	Monarch with approval of Parliament
Term length	No fixed length
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Norway
Formation	8 May 1972
First holder	Olav Gjærevoll
Deputy	State secretaries at the Ministry of the Environment
Website	regjeringen.no/

The minister and minister post were established on 8 May 1972. The title was known as the Minister of the Environment until 2013.^[3] 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, who held the position for five years, later became Prime Minister. Erik Solheim of the Socialist Left Party held the position concurrently with being Minister of International Development.^[4]

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.

  Centre Party
  Conservative Party
  Christian Democratic Party
  Labour Party
  Liberal Party
  Socialist Left Party

Ministers

Photo	Name	Party	Took office	Left office	Tenure	Cabinet	Ref
	Olav Gjærevoll	Labour	8 May 1972	18 October 1972	163 days	Bratteli I	[5]
—	Trygve Haugeland	Centre	18 October 1972	5 March 1973	138 days	Korvald	[6]
—	Helga Gitmark	Centre	5 March 1973	16 October 1973	225 days		[6]
—	Tor Halvorsen	Labour	16 October 1973	6 September 1974	325 days	Bratteli II	[7]
	Gro Harlem Brundtland	Labour	6 September 1974	8 October 1979	5 years, 32 days	Bratteli II Nordli	[7][8]
—	Rolf Arthur Hansen	Labour	8 October 1979	14 October 1981	2 years, 6 days	Nordli Brundtland I	[8][9]
	Wenche Frogn Sellæg	Conservative	14 October 1981	8 June 1983	1 year, 237 days	Willoch I	[10]
—	Rakel Surlien	Centre	8 June 1983	9 May 1986	2 years, 335 days	Willoch II	[10]
—	Sissel Rønbeck	Labour	9 May 1986	16 October 1989	3 years, 160 days	Brundtland II	[11]
—	Kristin Hille Valla	Centre	16 October 1989	3 November 1990	1 year, 18 days	Syse	[12]
	Thorbjørn Berntsen	Labour	3 November 1990	17 October 1997	6 years, 348 days	Brundtland III Jagland	[13][14]
—	Guro Fjellanger	Liberal	17 October 1997	17 March 2000	2 years, 152 days	Bondevik I	[15]
	Siri Bjerke	Labour	17 March 2000	19 October 2001	1 year, 216 days	Stoltenberg I	[16]
	Børge Brende	Conservative	19 October 2001	18 June 2004	2 years, 243 days	Bondevik II	[17]
	Knut Arild Hareide	Christian Democratic	18 June 2004	17 October 2005	1 year, 121 days		[17]
	Helen Bjørnøy	Socialist Left	17 October 2005	18 October 2007	2 years, 1 day	Stoltenberg II	[4]
	Erik Solheim	Socialist Left	18 October 2007	23 March 2012	4 years, 157 days		[4]
	Bård Vegar Solhjell	Socialist Left	23 March 2012	16 October 2013	1 year, 207 days		[4]
	Tine Sundtoft	Conservative	16 October 2013	16 December 2015	2 years, 61 days	Solberg	[18]
	Vidar Helgesen	Conservative	16 December 2015	17 January 2018	2 years, 32 days		[19]
	Ola Elvestuen	Liberal	17 January 2018	24 January 2020	2 years, 7 days		[20]
	Sveinung Rotevatn	Liberal	24 January 2020	14 October 2021	1 year, 263 days		[21]
	Espen Barth Eide	Labour	14 October 2021	16 October 2023	2 years, 2 days	Støre	[22]
	Andreas Bjelland Eriksen	Labour	16 October 2023	present	1 year, 216 days		[23]