Luuk Folkerts (born 1963) is a Dutch politician and

environmental consultant Environmental consulting is often a form of compliance consulting, in which the consultant ensures that the client maintains an appropriate measure of compliance with environmental regulations. There are many types of environmental consultants, b ...

serving since 28 November 2010 as

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of the

Party for the Animals The Party for the Animals ( nl, Partij voor de Dieren; PvdD) is a List of political parties in the Netherlands, political party in the Netherlands. Among its main goals are animal rights and animal welfare. Since 2019, the PvdD's political lead ...

(''Partij voor de Dieren'', PvdD), succeeding to party founder

Marianne Thieme Marianne Louise Thieme (, born 6 March 1972) is a Dutch politician, author and animal rights activist. A jurist by education, she served as the Party for the Animals' political leader from 2002 to 2019 and a member of the House of Representatives ...

. Previously he was the PvdD's

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and a candidate on the lists for the 2007 election of the

States-Provincial The provincial council (, PS), also known as the States Provincial, is the provincial parliament and legislative assembly in each of the provinces of the Netherlands. It is elected for each province simultaneously once every four years and has ...

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, the Dutch Senate election of 2007 as well as the Dutch general election of 2010, but was not elected to a seat. Folkerts studied

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and worked at Ecofys, an international operating environmental consultancy, where he was dealing with matters of

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and

climate Climate is the long-term weather pattern in an area, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years. Some of the meteorologic ...

policy.

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Party for the Animals website
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