The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (German: Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, nukleare Sicherheit und Verbraucherschutz, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsminɪsˌteːʁiʊm fyːɐ̯ ˈʊmˌvɛlt naˈtuːɐ̯ˌʃʊt͡s nukleˈaːʁə ˈzɪçɐhaɪ̯t ʊnt fɛɐ̯ˈbʁaʊ̯xɐˌʃʊt͡s] ⓘ), abbreviated BMUV, is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Furthermore The Greens had been formed a few years prior in part as an anti-nuclear environmentalist party and had achieved federal representation in 1983 and Joschka Fischer had been appointed minister of the environment for Hesse the previous year, marking the first state level red-green coalition in Germany.

[2] Thus the CDU/CSU intended to project a message of taking the environment seriously in an era in which the Greens were widely perceived as the only party with a policy focus on environmental issues, notwithstanding the fact that CSU-led Bavaria had had a state environment minister since 1971 and the FDP was the first to pass an environment-related plank in the party platform in 1971.

The current Minister is Steffi Lemke, appointed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

The minister is supported by two parliamentary state secretaries (members of the cabinet and federal government, "deputy ministers") and two career state secretaries (public servants)[6] who manage the ministry's nine directorates:[7] Political Party: