Corinne Lepage

Corinne Lepage is a renowned French lawyer and politician committed to environmental protection.   

A doctor of law and graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, she was sworn in as a lawyer in 1975.  

For the past 40 years, Corinne Lepage has been committed to the environment in a variety of ways.   

After serving as a local politician in 1989, in 1995 she accepted Alain Juppé’s proposal to become Minister for the Environment, a position she held until 1997. During her term of office, she championed the LAURE law on air pollution and rational energy use. In 1997, thanks to her firm and sustained stance, she obtained the non-restarting of the Superphénix nuclear reactor and a moratorium on GMOs.  

She became a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014, and was first Vice-Chairwoman of the European Parliament’s Health and Environment Committee.  

After creating the Cap 21 party in 2000, she founded and chaired the Rassemblement citoyen – Cap 21 environmental party in 2014, which she still chairs today.   

She is the author of some thirty books on environmental law and political essays, both general and specifically on environmental issues. She also teaches courses on Climate Justice at Sciences Po Paris.