Pascal Canfin

Pascal Canfin (born in Arras, August 22, 1974) is a Member of the European Parliament as part of the LaREM national party and Renew Europe group. He was formerly the head of the French section of WWF until March 25, 2019, and Minister for Development under the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Ayrault Cabinet. Canfin previously served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2012. From July 2014 to December 2015, he was the Senior Advisor on Climate at World Resources Institute (WRI), ranked the most influential think tank in the world on environmental issues, on the preparation of the International climate summit to be held in Paris in December 2015 (COP21). For this matter, he also co-chaired with Alain Grandjean the Commission for innovative financing for climate, mandated by the President of the French Republic.He also co-directs since September 2014, with Olivier Nay, the master's degree "International Cooperation, Humanitarian Action and Development Policies" of the Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He recently published a new book entitled 30 questions for understanding the Paris climate change Conference (Les Petits Matins publishing house) to decrypt the challenges of CoP 21 and guide citizen mobilization on climate.