Agency Name: | Environment Bureau |
Nativename A: | 環境局 |
Formed: | 2007 |
Preceding1: | Environment, Transport and Works Bureau |
Dissolved: | 2022 |
Superseding: | Environment and Ecology Bureau |
Headquarters: | 15/F & 16/F, East Wing, Central Government Offices, 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar, Hong Kong |
Minister1 Name: | Wong Kam-sing |
Minister1 Pfo: | Secretary for the Environment |
Deputyminister1 Name: | Tse Chin-wan |
Deputyminister1 Pfo: | Under Secretary for the Environment[1] |
Chief1 Name: | Maisie Cheng |
Chief1 Position: | Permanent Secretary for the Environment/Director of Environmental Protection |
Child1 Agency: | Environmental Protection Department |
Website: | www.enb.gov.hk |
T: | 環境局 |
Y: | Wàahn gíng guhk |
J: | Waan4 ging2 guk6 |
The Environment Bureau (ENB;) 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.
The following public entities are managed by the bureau:[1]