Rémi Parmentier

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Rémi Parmentier is a founding director of The Varda Group consultancy, where he develops projects and campaigns covering areas as diverse as ocean governance and marine policy, climate action, bees and pollinators conservation, whale conservation and anti-corruption. He has more than 40 years of experience in the field of the international environmental movement. He was a founding member of Greenpeace International; in the 70s and 80s, he established the Greenpeace offices in France, Spain and Latin America, and played a leading role in setting up Greenpeace International’s Strategic and Political Unit which he led as Political Director. Over his four decades as an environmental advocate, he worked with several governments and organizations at numerous international policy fora, developing a deep knowledge in the areas of sustainable development, environmental policy, public health, marine policy, toxic pollution prevention and nuclear proliferation. Parmentier was the main architect of the worldwide prohibition on the dumping at sea of nuclear and industrial wastes. In 2006, he promoted the organization of the first World Assembly on Labour and the Environment. More recently, he was one of the thinkers who helped conceptualize and establish the Global Ocean Commission. He has also promoted campaigns such as ‘Because the Ocean initiative’ or ‘Low Hanging Fish campaign’.