In some cases a Federal minister is responsible for more than one ministry ( e. g. Environment and Housing may be combined ), and a minister may be assisted by one or more ministers of State.

India's Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan currently chairs the forum.

He was a junior minister throughout Labour's time in power from 1974 to 1979, first in the Department for the Environment ( 1974 – 75 ) under Anthony Crosland, then in the Department of Industry under Eric Varley ( Minister of State, 1975 – 79 ).

In the 1995 election the Green League received a total of nine seats ( out of 200 ), joined the coalition-cabinet led by the Social Democrats, and Pekka Haavisto became the minister of Environment and Development Aid, thus becoming the first green minister in Europe.

There was, however, significant tension between himself and members of the party, most notably the former Bourassa cabinet minister Pierre Paradis ( whom Charest excluded from his cabinet ) and the resignations of several important members of his cabinet, notably Finance Minister Yves Seguin, Justice Minister Marc Bellemare, and Environment Minister Thomas Mulcair.

Agalev supplied two ministers, Magda Aelvoet who became vice-prime minister and minister for Public Health and the Environment, and Eddy Boutmans who became minister for Development Cooperation.

Mieke Vogels became the Flemish minister for Wellbeing and Development Cooperation and Vera Dua became minister for Agriculture and the Environment.

Ralph Klein, while serving as Environment Minister under Getty, commented that " If you are a minister, you run that portfolio yourself " and expressed an appreciation for the freedom that the Premier gave his cabinet.

Chrétien became prime minister following the election, and named Copps as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment.

Despite a vigorous challenge from Environment Minister Jean Charest, Campbell emerged victorious from the June leadership election and became Canada's first female prime minister.

After unsuccessfully contesting the Isle of Wight in the 1983 General Election ( 34, 904 votes ), she was elected to Parliament with 21, 545 votes in a by-election in 1984 ( filling the seat left vacant by the death of Maurice Macmillan, son of former prime minister Harold Macmillan ), as the Member for South West Surrey, received her first ministerial position in 1988 as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of the Environment and was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1989.

Frank Dobson, who had been Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment prior to the 1997 general election, was made Secretary of State for Health, while Andrew Smith, who had been Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, was made a junior minister at the Department for Education and Employment.

Returning to London, Alan is shocked to discover that in his absence, Piers has been promoted and is now a junior minister to Sir Greville MacDonald, the Secretary of State for the Environment.

Later in the year he became the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment, until moved by the new prime minister John Major in the same position at the Department of Energy in 1990.

He served under Michael Howard as a shadow minister for Environment and Transport until 2005.

She was appointed a shadow Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs minister by Harriet Harman in May 2010, and was retained in that role by Ed Miliband after his election as Leader of the Labour Party.

In the reshuffle of June 2009 Norris entered the Government as a minister for the first time, becoming Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

He served as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office, the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry, the Department of Trade and Industry and finally in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

He was the Member of Parliament for Salisbury between 1983 and 2010, and was Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities in the Department of the Environment ( now DEFRA ) from 1990-2, setting up the Inner Cities Religious Council in 1991, and was a junior minister at the Department of National Heritage ( now Culture, Media and Sport ) from 1992-3.

* Huber, Peter, Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists, New York, Basic Books, 2000 ISBN 0-465-03113-7

Peter Raven, past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), states in the foreword to their publication AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment: " We have driven the rate of biological extinction, the permanent loss of species, up several hundred times beyond its historical levels, and are threatened with the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century.

In 1977, together with Peter Scott, he received the UN International Environment prize.

( Princeton University Press ) with Daniel M. Kammen ; Environment ( J. Wiley and Sons ), with Peter Raven and Linda Berg, and, most recently, Visualizing Environmental Science ( J. Wiley and Sons ), with Linda Berg and Mary Catherine Hager.

The Dalgety District and Community Association now holds an annual ' Snowy River Day ' on 31 August to commemorate when the three governments, Victoria, NSW and the Commonwealth with high profile former Australian Conservation Foundation President, and now Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett oversaw the temporary release of water from the Moonbah or Mowamba River, a tributary of the Snowy River.

Some campaigners demanded that the government of Edward Heath should intervene and take over the building, and at one point in June 1972 Peter Walker ( then Secretary of State for the Environment ) offered £ 5 million for the building.

## Peter Kent, Minister of the Environment ( October 30, 2008 )

Straw served as political adviser to Barbara Castle at the Department of Social Security from 1974 to 1976, and as adviser to Peter Shore at the Department for the Environment from 1976 to 1977.

In December 2011, Ministry of the Environment ( Canada ) Peter Kent announced Canada's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol one day after negotiators from nearly 200 countries meeting in Durban, South Africa at the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference ( November 28-December 11 ), completed a marathon of climate talks to establish a new treaty to limit carbon emissions.

The current Minister of the Environment is Peter Kent.

Chope was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Peter Brooke, the Minister of State at the Treasury in 1986, before being promoted by Margaret Thatcher to serve in her government as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment later in the same year, where he was responsible for steering through the poll tax, or " Community Charge ", legislation.

Construction started in 1968 and the junction was opened in May 1972 by the then Secretary of State for the Environment, Peter Walker.

* Session I: " Moving Beyond Fast Food Nation " ( University Channel audio / video ) This is the opening session of a Princeton University conference on " Food, Ethics and the Environment ", with Peter Singer.

" But the experience is just as important as the meat ," points out Peter Nielsen, Head of Office at the Ministry of Environment and Nature.

The proposal was rejected by the Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett in October 2009 on the grounds that there would be ' unacceptable ' impacts to the World Heritage Great Barrier Reef values of the island.

The Minister leading the department since September 2010 is the Hon Tony Burke MP who is the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Burke takes over the portfolio from Peter Garrett.

* Hon Peter Howson, MP: Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, Minister in charge of Tourist Activities ( from 31 May 1971 )

Peter Kent, PC, MP ( born July 27, 1943 ) is a Conservative member of parliament for the riding of Thornhill, and the current Minister of the Environment in the 28th Canadian Ministry.

On 7 November 2008 the Federal Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett, announced that the Adelaide Park Lands had been entered in the Australian National Heritage List as " an enduring treasure for the people of South Australia and the nation as a whole ".

In 1997 he helped found Friends of the Irish Environment, which is a network of Independent Environmentalists, along with other environmental activists Tony Lowes, David Healy, Peter Sweetman, and Sarah Dillon.

* Peter Garrett: current Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts and band member of Midnight Oil

* Environment and Security Program of the Pacific Institute, directed by Peter Gleick

The School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Duke University Marine Lab ( both formed in 1938 ) came together in 1991 to become the School of Environment, which was named the Nicholas School of the Environment in 1995 following a $ 20 million gift from Peter M. and Ginny Nicholas.