Secretary of the Environment (Mexico)

The Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (in Spanish: Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, SEMARNAT) is Mexico's environment ministry. Its head, the Secretary of the Environment, is a member of the federal executive cabinet and is appointed by the President of the Republic. As of 2015^[update] the appointed Secretary of the Environment in the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto is Rafael Pacchiano Alamán who was preceded by Juan José Guerra Abud, who was in the position from 1 December 2012 to 27 August 2015.

The Secretariat is charged with the mission of protecting, restoring, and conserving the ecosystems, natural resources, assets and environmental services of Mexico with the goal of fostering sustainable development.

The Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico is the Secretary of State to which, according to Law of Federal Public Administration in its Article 32a, corresponds to the release of the following functions:

To carry out these functions, the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources has the following Undersecretaries:

These Undersecretaries are then charged with the operation of the following units of the SEMARNAT:

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