The ministry was established in 1991. Over the years, several departments were added and removed in the Ministry's jurisdiction. The area covered by the Ministry mostly included environmental protection, natural resources, spatial planning. From 2004 to 2007, the Department for environmental protection was under
Ministry of Science jurisdiction. In 2011, the Department for mining of the
Ministry of Mining and Energy was added to the Ministry only to be removed in 2014. In 2012, Department for environmental protection was moved into
Ministry of Energy, Development, and Environment under
Zorana Mihajlović. The Ministry was abolished in 2014, as the Department for mining was merged into
Ministry of Mining and Energy. In 2017, it was split from the
Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection. ==List of ministers==