Former Minister Julien Denormandie recruited by a start-up

42 years old, Julien Denormandie held three positions in the government during the first five -year term of Emmanuel Macron.

Le Monde with AFP

Former Minister of Agriculture Julien Denormandie was recruited by Sweep, a young Consulting Consulting Pusher for Carbon Entreprises for Businesses, the company announced on Tuesday, September 6. Within Sweep, he started on Monday as Chief Impact Officer, namely manager responsible for assessing the incidence of business activity.

“Sweep has set itself the ambition to participate in a concrete and measurable way in the transition of companies to sustainable models. The arrival of Julien Denormandie is part of this ambition,” said in A press release 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, which will allow them to successfully achieve their climatic objectives and to succeed in sustainable models acting effectively against greenhouse gas emissions, “said Denormandie.

criticized by environmentalists

Aged 42, Julien Denormandie held three positions in the government during the first five -year term of Emmanuel Macron, of which he was close collaborator from the beginnings of the 2017 presidential campaign.

From July 2020 to May 2022, agriculture, he was criticized by environmentalists and certain farmers as a supporter of intensive agriculture, close to the views of the FNSEA union and the food industry.

He quickly committed himself to a supervised return to neonicotinoid insecticides, with the notoriously harmful effects for bees, to prevent a jaundice threatening the production of sugar beet. In his mission of “food sovereignty” for France, he repeatedly repeated “science and reason”.

/Media reports.