Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development (Colombia)

Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development
Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial
Ministry overview
Formed December 27, 2002 (2002-12-27)
Preceding Ministry Ministry of Environment
Headquarters Calle 37 № 8-40
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Annual budget COP$1,712,536,013,992
(est. 2010)[1]
Ministry executives Beatriz Elena Uribe Botero, Minister
Claudia Patricia Mora Pineda,
Deputy Minister of Environment
Guillermo Herrera Castaño,
Deputy Minister of Housing and Territorial Development
Key documents Ley 790 de 2002
Decreto 216 de 2003
Website
www.minambiente.gov.co

The Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development (Spanish: Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial), is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia charged with determining and regulating the standards and guidelines for the protection of the environment, the improvement and availability of potable water, and the overseeing of housing, territorial development, and sanitation.

Ministers

Order Period Minister of Environment,
Housing and Territorial Development
1st 2003-2003 Cecilia Rodríguez González-Rubio
2nd 2003-2007 Sandra Suárez Pérez
3rd 2006-2009 Juan Francisco Lozano Ramírez
4th 2009-2010 Carlos Costa Posada
5th 2010-present Beatriz Elena Uribe Botero

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