The Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources is the head of the Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources. The current Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources is Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson.[1]
| Nº | Minister | Took office | Left office | Duration | Party | Cabinet | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edvard Júlíus Sólnes (1937–) | 23 February 1990 | 30 April 1991 | 1 year, 2 months, 7 days (431 days) | CP | Steingrímur Hermannsson III | |||
| 2 | Eiður Svanberg Guðnason (1939–2017) | 30 April 1991 | 14 June 1993 | 2 years, 1 month, 15 days (776 days) | SDP | Davíð Oddsson I | |||
| 3 | Össur Skarphéðinsson (1953–) | 14 June 1993 | 23 April 1995 | 1 year, 10 months, 9 days (678 days) | SDP | ||||
| 4 | Guðmundur Kristján Bjarnason (1944–) | 23 April 1995 | 11 May 1999 | 4 years, 18 days (1479 days) | PP | Davíð Oddsson II | |||
| 5 | Halldór Ásgrímsson (1947–2015) | 11 May 1999 | 28 May 1999 | 17 days (17 days) | PP | ||||
| 6 | Siv Friðleifsdóttir (1962–) | 28 May 1999 | 23 May 2003 | 5 years, 3 months, 18 days (1937 days) | PP | Davíð Oddsson III | |||
| 23 May 2003 | 15 September 2004 | Davíð Oddsson IV | |||||||
| 7 | Sigríður Anna Þórðardóttir (1946–) | 15 September 2004 | 15 June 2006 | 1 year, 9 months (638 days) | IP | Halldór Ásgrímsson | |||
| 8 | Jónína Bjartmarz (1952–) | 15 June 2006 | 24 May 2007 | 11 months, 9 days (343 days) | PP | Geir Haarde I | |||
| 9 | Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir (1965–) | 24 May 2007 | 1 February 2009 | 1 year, 8 months, 8 days (619 days) | SDA | Geir Haarde II | |||
| 10 | Kolbrún Halldórsdóttir (1955–) | 1 February 2009 | 10 May 2009 | 3 months, 9 days (98 days) | LGM | Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir I | |||
| 11 | Svandís Svavarsdóttir (1964–) | 10 May 2009 | — | — | LGM | Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir II | |||
| Nº | Minister | Took office | Left office | Duration | Party | Cabinet | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (11) | Svandís Svavarsdóttir (1964–) | — | 23 May 2013 | 4 years, 13 days (1,474 days) | LGM | Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir II | |||
| 12 | Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson (1962–) | 23 May 2013 | 31 December 2014 | 1 year, 7 months, 8 days (587 days) | PP | Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson | |||
| 13 | Sigrún Magnúsdóttir (1944–) | 31 December 2014 | 11 January 2017 | 2 years, 11 days (742 days) | PP | ||||
| Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson | |||||||||
| 14 | Björt Ólafsdóttir (1983–) | 11 January 2017 | 30 November 2017 | 10 months, 19 days (323 days) | BF | Bjarni Benediktsson | |||
| 15 | Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson (1977–) | 30 November 2017 | 28 November 2021 | 5 years, 339 days (1,459 days) | LGM | Katrín Jakobsdóttir I | |||