Goran Trivan

Goran Trivan (, born 1962) is a Serbian politician. He served as the Minister of Environmental Protection since 29 June 2017 until October 2020. He is a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia since its foundation.

He has also served as the Minister of Youth and Sports (in 1991), in the first convocation of the Government of Serbia.

Education and career Trivan was born in Kladovo, SFR Yugoslavia, where he finished primary and secondary school. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Forestry. Being a member of Socialist Party of Serbia, he served as the Minister of Youth and Sports in the first convocation of the Government of Serbia, from 11 February until 31 July 1991. He was later acquitted due to absolute obsolescence.

He was the head of the Belgrade Secretariat for Environmental Protection from 2008 to 2017.

In August 2017, Trivan has stated that Serbia, which significantly lags behind other European countries in the field of environmental protection, needs 15 billion euros of investments to get up to speed in this arena. He has also stated that his ministry would focus on projects (thus generating more significant funds from the EU, as well as other foreign investments), better management of landfills, and more stringent control of harmful gases. He has also criticized sales of water resources to foreign companies, saying that long-term consequences of such actions would be devastating for Serbia.