Environment Bureau

Environment Bureau
Environment Bureau
Traditional Chinese	環境局
Yale Romanization
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Wàahn gíng guhk
Jyutping	Waan4 ging2 guk6

Environment Bureau
環境局
	Emblem of the Hong Kong SAR
Agency overview
Formed	2007
Preceding agency	Environment, Transport and Works Bureau;
Dissolved	2022
Superseding agency	Environment and Ecology Bureau;
Headquarters	15/F & 16/F, East Wing, Central Government Offices, 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar, Hong Kong
Minister responsible	Wong Kam-sing, Secretary for the Environment;
Deputy Minister responsible	Tse Chin-wan, Under Secretary for the Environment[1];
Agency executive	Maisie Cheng, Permanent Secretary for the Environment/Director of Environmental Protection;
Child agency	Environmental Protection Department;
Website	www.enb.gov.hk

The Environment Bureau (ENB; Chinese: 環境局) is a defunct executive agency of the Government of Hong Kong in operation from 2007 to 2022. It was responsible for developing policies in environmental protection, energy, climate change, sustainable development, nature conservation; enforcing environmental legislation. This also includes monitoring environmental quality, energy efficiency, waste management, renewable energy development, regulatory oversight of the electricity sector in Hong Kong[2][3] The bureau was managed by the Secretary for the Environment.

As part of the government bureaux restructuring on 1 July 2022, the bureau was replaced by the enlarged Environment and Ecology Bureau, which took over all policy portfolios under the former Environment Bureau.

Subordinate departments

The following public entities are managed by the bureau:[1]

Environmental Protection Department
Energy and Sustainable Development Branch

References

"Organisation". Retrieved 25 March 2017.
ENB Welcome Message
ENB Responsibilities

External links

http://www.enb.gov.hk/

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[org-1] "Organisation". Retrieved 25 March 2017.

[2] ENB Welcome Message

[3] ENB Responsibilities

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Environment Bureau

Subordinate departments

See also

References

External links