Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (Colombia)

Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development
Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible
Ministry overview
Formed	4 May 2011
Preceding Ministry	Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development;
Headquarters	Calle 37 № 8-40; Bogotá, D.C., Colombia; 04°37′31.31″N 74°04′00.97″W / 4.6253639°N 74.0669361°W
Annual budget	COL$274,026,392,000 (2013); COP$318,331,457,988 (2014)
Ministry executive	Lena Estrada, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development;
Website	www.minambiente.gov.co

The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (Spanish: Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible) is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia in charge of formulating, implementing, and orienting environmental policy to ensure the sustainable development of the country.^[4]

List of Ministers

Name	Assumed office	Left office	President(s) served under
Manuel Rodríguez Becerra	November 6, 1993	January 8, 1996	César Gaviria
Cecilia López	January 8, 1996	April 4, 1997	Ernesto Samper
Eduardo Verano de la Rosa	April 4, 1997	August 7, 1998	Ernesto Samper
Juan Mayr	August 7, 1998	August 7, 2002	Andrés Pastrana
Cecilia Rodríguez	August 7, 2002	October 28, 2003	Álvaro Uribe
Sandra Suárez	October 28, 2003	August 7, 2007
Juan Lozano Ramírez	August 7, 2007	May 23, 2008
Carlos Costa	May 23, 2008	August 7, 2010
Beatriz Uribe	August 7, 2010	September 27, 2011	Juan Manuel Santos
Frank Pearl	September 27, 2011	September 21, 2012
Juan Gabriel Uribe	September 21, 2012	September 11, 2013
Luz Helena Sarmiento	September 11, 2013	August 11, 2014
Gabriel Vallejo	August 11, 2014	April 26, 2016
Luis Gilberto Murillo	April 26, 2016	August 7, 2018
Ricardo Lozano	August 7, 2018	October 4, 2020	Iván Duque
Carlos Eduardo Correa	October 4, 2020	August 7, 2022	Iván Duque
Susana Muhamad	August 7, 2022	February 9, 2025	Gustavo Petro
Lena Estrada	March 3, 2025	Incumbent	Gustavo Petro

^ Colombia, Congress of (4 May 2011). "Ley 1444 de 2011" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (48, 059). Bogotá: 2. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 6 May 2013.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Colombia, Congress of (10 December 2012). "Ley 1593 de 2012" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (48, 640). Bogotá: 13. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
^ Colombia, Congress of (11 December 2013). "Ley 1687 de 2014" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (49, 001). Bogotá: 29. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
^ "Misión y Visión". Sobre el Ministerio (in Spanish). Colombia, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. Archived from the original on 2008-03-13. Retrieved 7 May 2013.

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v t e Agencies of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia
Affiliated agencies	IDEAM FONAM
Associated agencies	INVEMAR SINCHI IIAP IAVH
Administrative agencies	National Natural Parks ANLA

Ministry overview
Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible


Formed	4 May 2011 (2011-05-04)^[1]
Preceding Ministry	Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development
Headquarters	Calle 37 № 8-40 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 04°37′31.31″N 74°04′00.97″W / 4.6253639°N 74.0669361°W / 4.6253639; -74.0669361
Annual budget	COL$274,026,392,000 (2013)^[2] COP$318,331,457,988 (2014)^[3]
Ministry executive	Lena Estrada, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development
Website	www.minambiente.gov.co