14 Facts About Bas Eickhout

Bas Eickhout was born on 8 October 1976 and is a Dutch politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2009 elections.

Bas Eickhout is a member of the GreenLeft, part of the European Green Party.

Bas Eickhout served as chairman in the Nijmegen Association of Chemistry Students Sigma, later a member of the Nijmegen University Council.

Since 2000, Bas Eickhout has worked as a researcher at the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment.

Bas Eickhout worked on several projects which had to do with transnational environmental problems such as climate change, and he was the institute's spokesperson on the sustainability of biofuels.

Bas Eickhout worked for the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Between 2008 and 2009, Bas Eickhout was a member of the committee chaired by Bram van Ojik which wrote the new party platform.

Bas Eickhout is a member of the GreenLeft delegation to the European Green Party.

Bas Eickhout has served as the Parliament's rapporteur on the EU's target for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, the European Union Emission Trading Scheme, renewable energy rules, sustainable finance and CO2 emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles.

Bas Eickhout is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals.

On 24 November 2018, Bas Eickhout was elected as one of two leading candidates of the European Greens for the 2019 European Parliament election alongside Ska Keller.

Bas Eickhout was a proponent of creating a European fund worth one percent of its GDP to invest in the industrial sector in order to increase the EU's competitiveness.

Bas Eickhout has a partner and a daughter from a previous relationship.

In December 2020, Bas Eickhout received the Environment award at The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards.