Environment and Ecology Bureau

Environment and Ecology Bureau

環境及生態局
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Agency overview
Formed	2022
Preceding agency	Environment Bureau
Jurisdiction	Chief Secretary for Administration
Headquarters	15/F-17/F, East Wing, Central Government Offices, 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar, Hong Kong
Minister responsible	Tse Chin-wan, Secretary for Environment and Ecology
Deputy Minister responsible	Diane Wong Shuk-han, Under Secretary for Environment and Ecology
Agency executives	Janice Tse Siu-wa, Permanent Secretary for Environment and Ecology (Environment)/Director of Environmental Protection Vivian Lau Lee-kwan, Permanent Secretary for Environment and Ecology (Food)
Child agencies	Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department Environmental Protection Department Food and Environmental Hygiene Department Government Laboratory Hong Kong Observatory
Website	www.eeb.gov.hk

Environment and Ecology Bureau (EEB; Chinese: 環境及生態局) is a policy bureau of the Government of Hong Kong. The agency was established on 1 July 2022. The current (since 1 July 2022) Secretary for Environment and Ecology is Tse Chin-wan.

This bureau was newly established under the re-organisation of policy bureaux proposed by Carrie Lam, the fifth Chief Executive of Hong Kong, and was adopted by John Lee, the succeeding Chief Executive after Carrie Lam.^[1] On 19 June 2022, the State Council of China announced the appointment of Tse Chin-wan, previously the Under Secretary for Environment, as the first Secretary for Environment and Ecology.^[2]

As an expanded bureau compared to the previous Environment Bureau, the bureau is in charge of portfolios such as environmental protection, conservation of natural ecology, environmental hygiene, food safety, agriculture, fisheries and animal welfare. With the reassignment of the Hong Kong Observatory to the bureau, policies on climate change and meteorology are also under its purview.