The Minister of State for International Environment is a junior ministerial position in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. It is currently vacant since October 2022.
Responsibilities
The minister’s responsibilities include:
- International environment, climate, biodiversity and conservation
- Animal Welfare
- Forestry policy – domestic and international
- International Whaling Commission
- International ocean (including ocean and climate, marine biodiversity (including overseas territories marine biodiversity), marine litter and blue finance)
- Illegal wildlife trade, Corridors, Kaza
- Green recovery
- International green finance
- Lead for Forestry Commission
- Lords Minister for environment, including Environment Bill
List of ministers
Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | ||||
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment and International Development | ||||||||
The Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | ![]() |
13 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Conservative | Johnson | |||
Minister of State for the Pacific and the International Environment | ||||||||
The Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | ![]() |
13 February 2020 | 15 September 2022 | Conservative | Johnson | |||
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Environment | ||||||||
The Lord Benyon | ![]() |
20 September 2022 | 31 October 2022 | Conservative | Truss |
See also
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Minister of State for Food
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Growth and Rural Affairs
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