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
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

References

1. ^ Ley de Presupuesto General de la Nación 2010, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, 2010, pp. 52–53, http://www.minhacienda.gov.co/portal/page/portal/MinHacienda/haciendapublica/presupuesto/programacion/inicio/Ley2010/TOMO%200.pdf, retrieved 2010-08-18