Benoit Faraco
Ambassador in charge of climate change negotiations, carbon-free energy, and climate risk prevention, France
Benoit Faraco is a French environmental policy expert, appointed as France’s Ambassador for climate negotiations, for decarbonized energies and for the prevention of climate risks. Prior to this role, he served as the President’s senior advisor on energy, environment, transport, and agriculture, and has dedicated the ten last years to the implementation of climate policies at domestic and European level.
Ambassador Faraco began his career in environmental advocacy, working for instance with the former Nicolas Hulot Foundation (current Fondation pour la Nature et pour l’Homme) and with the French Climate Action Network. He joined the government in 2012 as advisor on climate and development international negotiation to the minister for Development where he participated to the whole process of negotiation for the SDGs and the Paris Agreement, created in 2016 the French office of the European Climate Foundation, and came back to government function in 2017, as a special advisor in the minister for ecology transition office.
As newly appointed ambassador, Amb. Faraco will lead France’s international climate diplomacy for the coming years, in the course to COP30, in this year where we celebrate the 10 years of the Paris Agreement.
