Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources (Iceland)

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The Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources (Icelandic: Umhverfis- og auðlindaráðherra) is the head of the Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources. The current Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources is Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson.^[1]

List of ministers

Ministers for the Environment (23 February 1990 – 1 September 2012)

Nº	Minister			Took office	Left office	Duration	Party	Cabinet
1			Edvard Júlíus Sólnes (1937–)	23 February 1990	30 April 1991	1 year, 2 months, 7 days (431 days)	CP	Steingrímur Hermannsson III
2			Eiður Svanberg Guðnason (1939–2017)	30 April 1991	14 June 1993	2 years, 1 month, 15 days (776 days)	SDP	Davíð Oddsson I
3			Össur Skarphéðinsson (1953–)	14 June 1993	23 April 1995	1 year, 10 months, 9 days (678 days)	SDP
4			Guðmundur Kristján Bjarnason (1944–)	23 April 1995	11 May 1999	4 years, 18 days (1479 days)	PP	Davíð Oddsson II
5			Halldór Ásgrímsson (1947–2015)	11 May 1999	28 May 1999	17 days (17 days)	PP
6			Siv Friðleifsdóttir (1962–)	28 May 1999	23 May 2003	5 years, 3 months, 18 days (1937 days)	PP	Davíð Oddsson III
				23 May 2003	15 September 2004			Davíð Oddsson IV
7			Sigríður Anna Þórðardóttir (1946–)	15 September 2004	15 June 2006	1 year, 9 months (638 days)	IP	Halldór Ásgrímsson
8			Jónína Bjartmarz (1952–)	15 June 2006	24 May 2007	11 months, 9 days (343 days)	PP	Geir Haarde I
9			Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir (1965–)	24 May 2007	1 February 2009	1 year, 8 months, 8 days (619 days)	SDA	Geir Haarde II
10			Kolbrún Halldórsdóttir (1955–)	1 February 2009	10 May 2009	3 months, 9 days (98 days)	LGM	Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir I
11			Svandís Svavarsdóttir (1964–)	10 May 2009	—	—	LGM	Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir II

Ministers for the Environment and Natural Resources (1 September 2012 – 28 November 2021)

Nº	Minister			Took office	Left office	Duration	Party	Cabinet
(11)			Svandís Svavarsdóttir (1964–)	—	23 May 2013	4 years, 13 days (1,474 days)	LGM	Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir II
12			Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson (1962–)	23 May 2013	31 December 2014	1 year, 7 months, 8 days (587 days)	PP	Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson
13			Sigrún Magnúsdóttir (1944–)	31 December 2014	11 January 2017	2 years, 11 days (742 days)	PP
								Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson
14			Björt Ólafsdóttir (1983–)	11 January 2017	30 November 2017	10 months, 19 days (323 days)	BF	Bjarni Benediktsson
15			Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson (1977–)	30 November 2017	28 November 2021	5 years, 339 days (1,459 days)	LGM	Katrín Jakobsdóttir I

Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate (28 November 2021 – present)

Nº	Minister			Took office	Left office	Duration	Party	Cabinet
16			Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson (1967–)	28 November 2021	Incumbent	2 years, 154 days (884 days)	IND	Katrín Jakobsdóttir II Bjarni Benediktsson II

References

External links

• Official website (in English)
• Official website (in Icelandic)