Environment Bureau
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The Environment Bureau (ENB; Chinese: 環境局) is a defunct policy bureau of the Government of Hong Kong in operation from 2007 to 2022. It was responsible for developing policies in environmental protection, energy, climate change, sustainable development, nature conservation; enforcing environmental legislation. This also includes monitoring environmental quality, energy efficiency, waste management, renewable energy development, regulatory oversight of the electricity sector in Hong Kong The bureau was managed by the Secretary for the Environment.
As part of the government bureaux restructuring on 1 July 2022, the bureau was replaced by the enlarged Environment and Ecology Bureau, which took over all policy portfolios under the former Environment Bureau.
01Subordinate departments
The following public entities are managed by the bureau:
- Environmental Protection Department
- Energy and Sustainable Development Branch
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