Environment Bureau

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.

Environment Bureau
環境局
Emblem of the Hong Kong SAR
Agency overview
Formed2007
Preceding agency
Dissolved2022
Superseding agency
Headquarters15/F & 16/F, East Wing, Central Government Offices, 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar, Hong Kong
Minister responsible
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
Websitewww.enb.gov.hk
Environment Bureau
Traditional Chinese環境局

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]

See also

References

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