Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for the Pacific and the International Environment)

Organisations: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Responsibilities

The Minister’s responsibilities include:

  • international environment, climate, biodiversity and conservation
  • animal welfare
  • forestry policy – domestic and international
  • International Whaling Commission
  • international ocean (including ocean and climate, marine biodiversity (including overseas territories marine biodiversity), marine litter and blue finance)
  • illegal wildlife trade, Corridors, Kaza
  • green recovery
  • international green finance
  • lead for Forestry Commission
  • Lords Minister for environment, including Environment Bill

The Minister’s additional Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office responsibilities include:

  • Pacific islands

Previous holders of this role

  1. Lord Goldsmith

    2020 to 2022