H.E. Mr. Sveinung Rotevatn
President of the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, Minister of Climate and Environment of Norway
Sveinung Rotevatn (born 15 May 1987) serves as Minister of Climate and the Environment since January 2020. Mr. Rotevatn comes from Nordfjordeid, Sogn og Fjordane, and has a master's degree in law from the University of Bergen. Prior to his appointed as Minister he served as a state secretary at the same department from 2018 to 2020.
Mr.Rotevatn became the president of the Young Liberals of Norway, the Liberal Party's youth wing, in 2010, and was succeeded in October 2013 by Tord Hustveit.
He was elected MP from the Sogn og Fjordane county constituency in the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election, and later appointed State Secretary to the Department of Justice and Public Security on 17 January 2018.