Pascal Canfin

Pascal Canfin (French pronunciation: [paskal kɑ̃fɛ̃]; born 22 August 1974 in Arras) is a French politician of La République en marche (LREM) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. In the 2019 elections for the European Parliament, he was elected in the list of Renew Europe group and serves as chair of the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee; following his initiative, the European Parliament declared in December 2019 a "climate state of emergency". He was re-elected in 2024. Canfin was formerly the head of the French section of WWF until 25 March 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, Canfin 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. In July 2025, he co-founds together with Éric Hazan and Sarah Faivre, La Plateforme progressiste, a project aimed at structuring consensus-building conferences within the progressive political spectrum. The first conclusions of which he presented in December 2025.