Ministry of Energy of Denmark
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The Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy is a governmental agency in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. It is responsible for national climate policy and international cooperation on climate change, as well as energy issues, meteorology and national geological surveys in Denmark and Greenland.

History

The predecessor of the Ministry of Climate and Energy, the Ministry of Energy , was created in 1979, from the energy department of the Ministry of Trade. In 1994, it was merged with Ministry of the Environment and in 2005 it was detached from that ministry, to be merged with Ministry of Transport and Energy
Ministry of Transport and Energy of Denmark
The Danish Ministry of Transport in the Danish ministry in charge of coordinating and realizing the transport politics of Denmark.The Ministry of Transport was founded in 1900 under the name Ministry for Public Works...

.

On 23 November 2007, the energy issues were de-merged from the Ministry of Transport and climate issues were de-merged from the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Climate and Energy was created.

Minister

The minister of climate and energy was Connie Hedegaard
Connie Hedegaard
Connie Hedegaard is a Danish politician and public intellectual who has been European Commissioner for Climate Action in the European Commission since 10 February 2010....

 until November 2009 when she was replaced with Lykke Friis
Lykke Friis
Lykke Friis is a Danish politician for the party Venstre and former Minister for Climate and Energy and equal rights. Prior to this she was prorector at the University of Copenhagen, to which she was appointed for a five-year period starting March 1, 2006...

. Martin Lidegaard followed on October 3, 2011.

Agencies

The Danish Energy Agency
Danish Energy Agency
The Danish Energy Agency was established in 1975 as an agency of the Danish Ministry of Transport and was in 2007 transferred to the newly created Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy The agency is headquartered in 44 Amaliegade....

belongs under this ministry.

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