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Barbara Pompili (; born 13 June 1975) is a French politician who served as Minister of the Ecological Transition under
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from 2020 to 2022. Pompili has previously served as member of the
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for the 2nd constituency of
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from 2012 to 2016 and from 2017 to 2020. A member of
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(REM) since 2017, she was a member of
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(LV) from 2000 to 2010 and
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(EELV) from 2010 until 2015. Pompili served as Secretary of State for
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from 2016 to 2017.


Education

Born in Bois-Bernard,
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, Pompili grew up in Liévin. She graduated from Sciences Po Lille.


Political career


Early career

First elected to the National Assembly in the 2012 legislative election, Pompili was the first female president of a parliamentary group in the lower house, co-leading the EELV group with
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, from 2012 until 2016. She also served on the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs. In 2016, Pompili was appointed Secretary of State for Biodiversity in the
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of
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, under the Minister of Ecology,
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. She was reappointed when the
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Bernard Cazeneuve took office. During her time in office, she notably oversaw the entry into force of a French tax targeting
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and a ban on
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in 2016. Pompili was an early supporter of
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and the first minister in Hollande's government to openly support Macron's candidacy in the 2017 presidential election. She subsequently stood as a candidate of
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(EM) in Somme's 2nd constituency, which she had represented from 2012 until 2016. She was reelected in the 2017 legislative election and subsequently served as chairwoman of the Sustainable Development, Spatial and Regional Planning Committee from 2017 until 2020. In this capacity, she led a 2018 parliamentary inquiry into France's
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. In September 2018, after
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's appointment to the government, Pompili ran for the presidency of the National Assembly. In an internal vote within the LREM parliamentary group, she came in second; the position eventually went to the group's then-president Richard Ferrand.


Minister of the Ecological Transition, 2020–2022

Pompili co-founded a new political party;
En Commun En Commun () is a French environmentalist political party created in 2020 by En Marche MPs Barbara Pompili, Hugues Renson and Jacques Maire. The party is a member of the Ensemble coalition, which supported Emmanuel Macron Emmanuel ...
in 2020. During Pompili's time in office, France banned plastic packaging for nearly all fruit and vegetables from 2022 in a bid to reduce
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. When state-owned
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EDF shut down four reactors – with a combined daily capacity of 6 gigawatts (GW), equivalent to around 13 percent of current availability in France – due to technical problems in late 2021, Pompili asked the company to conduct an independent audit on the availability of its nuclear power stations.


Life after politics

In October 2023, Pompili was appointed to the General Secretariat for Ecological Planning (SGPE), serving as President Macron's Special Envoy for the 2024 One Water Summit.


Political positions

In July 2019, Pompili decided not to align with her parliamentary group's majority and became one of 52 LREM members who abstained from a vote on the French ratification of the
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(CETA) with
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. She also defended amendments on the transparency and labeling of
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s used in food products in defiance of the government's advice, as well as opposed delays in the country's strategy to reduce pesticides use and the phase-out of
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. In September 2020, Pompili publicly endorsed Aurore Bergé for the position of the LREM parliamentary group's chair; the position instead went to Christophe Castaner.Cécile Cornudet (September 14, 2020)
Comment Pompili a tenté de torpiller l'élection de Castaner
 '' Les Echos''


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pompili, Barbara 1975 births Living people Politicians from Pas-de-Calais French people of Italian descent Women members of the National Assembly (France) 21st-century French women politicians 20th-century French women politicians Renaissance (French political party) politicians Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Women government ministers of France French political party founders Candidates for the 2007 French legislative election