Barbara Pompili (French Ambassador for the Environment)

Barbara Pompili has been involved in political ecology for almost 20 years. First as member of Parliament from 2012 to 2016, then from 2017 to 2020, and finally from 2022 to 2023, she was President of the French National Assembly's Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning Committee, then rapporteur for the Foreign Affairs Committee. She was also Secretary of State for Biodiversity from February 2016 to 2017, and then Minister for Ecological Transition from 2020 to 2022, in charge of Energy, Transport, Housing, Water, Biodiversity, Circular Economy, Natural and Industrial Risks, and international Climate/Environment negotiations. Following the Citizens' Climate Convention, she pushed through the Climate and Resilience Law. She was president of the European Union's environment and energy councils during the French presidency in the first half of 2022. In October 2023, she submitted a report to the government on the acceptability of low-emission zones (LEZs) and the lessons to be learned from the experience of European countries. She is Chair of the OECD Water Governance Initiative. She was the special advisor for international in the General Secretariat for Ecological Planning (SGPE) and the French President's Special Envoy for the One Water Summit. Today, she is the French Ambassador for the Environment.