Julien Denormandie changes jobs. The former Minister of Agriculture has been recruited by Sweep, a start-up of advice on reducing carbon emissions for companies, the company announced on Tuesday.
Within the company, he started on Monday as “chief impact officer”, namely a leader responsible for assessing the impact of business activity. “Sweep has set itself the ambition of participating in a concrete and measurable way in the transition of companies towards sustainable models. The arrival of Julien Denormandie is at the heart of this ambition”, indicated the founder and general manager of this company, Rachel Delacour.
“My goal is to be able to use my experience to help companies equip themselves with solid tools that will allow them to successfully achieve their climate objectives and to successfully transition to sustainable models that act effectively against greenhouse gas emissions. greenhouse”, for his part explained the former minister.
A minister criticized by environmentalists
Aged 42, Julien Denormandie held three positions in government during Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, with whom he was a close collaborator from the start of the 2017 presidential campaign. From July 2020 to May 2022, in Agriculture, he has been criticized by ecologists and some farmers as a supporter of intensive agriculture, close to the views of the FNSEA union and the food industry.
He had quickly committed to a supervised return to neonicotinoid insecticides, with notoriously harmful effects for bees, to prevent jaundice threatening sugar beet production. In his mission of “food sovereignty” for France, he repeated that he systematically relied “on science and reason”.