Emmanuel Macron’s relative started this Monday at Sweep, a young carbon emission reduction consultancy for businesses.
Former Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie has been recruited by Sweep, a young carbon emission reduction consultancy for companies, the company announced on Tuesday. Within Sweep, he debuted on Monday as “chief impact officer“, ie manager in charge of evaluating the impact of the activity of companies.
«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“, said in a press release the founder and general manager of this company, Rachel Delacour.
A historical relative of Macron
«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 effect“Explained Julien Denormandie.
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Aged 42, Julien Denormandie held three government positions 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 its mission offood sovereignty” for France, he repeated to recover systematically “to science and reason».
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