Former agriculture minister Julien Denormandie has been hired by Sweep, a start-up carbon reduction consultancy for businesses, the company announced Tuesday. Within Sweep, he started Monday as “impact director,” that is, an officer responsible for assessing the impact of business activity.
“Sweep has set itself the ambition to participate 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 the founder and CEO of Sweep in a press release. this company, Rachel Delacour.
Favorable to the return of neonicotinoids
“My goal is to be able to use my experience to help companies equip themselves with solid tools that allow them to successfully achieve their climate goals and successfully move towards sustainable models that act effectively against greenhouse gas emissions”, explained Julien Denormandie .
From July 2020 to May 2022, in Agriculture, he was criticized by environmentalists and some farmers for being a supporter of intensive agriculture, close to the views of the FNSEA union and agri-food manufacturers.
He quickly committed to a supervised return to neonicotinoid insecticides, with notoriously damaging effects on bees, to prevent the jaundice that threatens sugar beet production.
In his mission of “food sovereignty” for France, he repeated systematically relying “on science and reason”.
Source: BFM TV
