Barbara Pompili

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Barbara Pompili
Member of the National Assembly for Somme's 2nd constituency
In office 21 June 2022 – 24 September 2023
Preceded by	Cécile Delpirou
Succeeded by	Ingrid Dordain
Minister of the Ecological Transition
In office 6 July 2020 – 20 May 2022
President	Emmanuel Macron
Prime Minister	Jean Castex
Preceded by	Élisabeth Borne
Succeeded by	Amélie de Montchalin
Member of the National Assembly for Somme's 2nd constituency
In office 20 June 2012 – 12 March 2016
Preceded by	Olivier Jardé
Succeeded by	Romain Joron
In office 21 June 2017 – 6 August 2020
Preceded by	Romain Joron
Succeeded by	Cécile Delpirou
Secretary of State for Biodiversity
In office 11 February 2016 – 10 May 2017
Prime Minister	Manuel Valls Bernard Cazeneuve
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	(1975-06-13) 13 June 1975 (age 49) Bois-Bernard, France
Political party	La République En Marche! (2017–present) Ecologist Party (2016–present)
Other political affiliations	Europe Ecology – The Greens (2010–2015) The Greens (2000–2010)
Children	1
Residence	Amiens
Education	Sciences Po Lille

Barbara Pompili (French pronunciation: [baʁbaʁa pɔ̃pili] ^ⓘ; born 13 June 1975) is a French politician who served as Minister of the Ecological Transition under Prime Minister Jean Castex from 2020^[1] to 2022.^[2]

Pompili has previously served as member of the National Assembly for the 2nd constituency of Somme from 2012 to 2016 and from 2017 to 2020. A member of La République En Marche! (REM) since 2017, she was a member of The Greens (LV) from 2000 to 2010 and Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) from 2010 until 2015. Pompili served as Secretary of State for Biodiversity from 2016 to 2017.^[3]

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

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 François de Rugy, 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 government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls,^[4] under the Minister of Ecology, Ségolène Royal. She was reappointed when the government of Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve took office. During her time in office, she notably oversaw the entry into force of a French tax targeting palm oil and a ban on neonicotinoids in 2016.^[5]

Pompili was an early supporter of Emmanuel Macron and the first minister in Hollande's government to openly support Macron's candidacy in the 2017 presidential election.^[6] She subsequently stood as a candidate of En Marche! (EM) in Somme's 2nd constituency, which she had represented from 2012 until 2016.^[7] 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 nuclear safety and security.^[8]

In September 2018, after François de Rugy's appointment to the government, Pompili ran for the presidency of the National Assembly.^[9] 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.^[10]

Pompili co-founded a new political party; En Commun in 2020.^[11]

During Pompili's time in office, France banned plastic packaging for nearly all fruit and vegetables from 2022 in a bid to reduce plastic waste.^[12]

When state-owned electric utility 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.^[13]

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.^[14]

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 European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.^[15] She also defended amendments on the transparency and labeling of genetically modified organisms 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 glyphosate.^[16]

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.^[17]