Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (Colombia)

Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development

Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible
Ministry overview
Formed	4 May 2011[1]
Preceding Ministry	Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development
Headquarters	Calle 37 № 8-40 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 04°37′31.31″N 74°04′00.97″W / 4.6253639°N 74.0669361°W
Annual budget	COL$274,026,392,000 (2013)[2] COP$318,331,457,988 (2014)[3]
Ministry executives	Luz Helena Sarmiento Villamizar, Minister Pablo Abba Vieira Samper, Deputy Minister
Website	www.minambiente.gov.co

The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (Spanish: Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible) is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia in charge of formulating, implementing, and orienting environmental policy to ensure the sustainable development of the country.^[4]

References

1. Colombia, Congress of (4 May 2011). "Ley 1444 de 2011" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (Bogotá) (48,059): 2. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
2. Colombia, Congress of (10 December 2012). "Ley 1593 de 2012" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (Bogotá) (48,640): 13. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
3. Colombia, Congress of (11 December 2013). "Ley 1687 de 2014" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (Bogotá) (49,001): 29. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
4. "Misión y Visión". Sobre el Ministerio (in Spanish). Colombia, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. Retrieved 7 May 2013.