Ministry of the Environment (Sweden)
| Miljö- och energidepartementet | |
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| Formed | 1987 |
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| Website | sweden |
The Ministry of the Environment and Energy (Swedish: Miljö- och energidepartementet) is a government ministry in Sweden responsible for the government's environmental policies regarding chemicals, natural environment and biological diversity.
The ministry offices are located at the old building in .
The ministry was founded in 1987 as the Ministry of the Environment and Energy (Swedish: Miljö- och energidepartementet). Previously environmental issues had been handled by the Ministry of Agriculture (Swedish: Jordbruksdepartementet) and energy issues had been handled by the Ministry of Industry. In 1990 the short form name of Ministry of the Environment was used, and energy issues transferred back to the Ministry of Industry, although supervision of nuclear energy was retained. In 1991 the ministry was renamed to the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (Swedish: Miljö- och naturresursdepartementet).
From 1 November 2004 to 1 January 2007, during the cabinet of Göran Persson, the ministry was known as the Ministry of Sustainable Development (Swedish: Miljö- och samhällsbyggnadsdepartementet). The cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt — which took office on October 6, 2006 — used the short form name again, transferred energy issues to the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications, and housing issues were transferred to the Ministry of Finance. In 2014, the department reverted to its original name under the newly installed cabinet of Stefan Löfven.
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