Learning Lab: Laying the Foundation for Your Climate Transition Plan

Date and Time

April 16, 2025
3:30 pm-5:00 pm CEST

Location

Webinar

Risks to people and planet are often embedded in business models and the feasibility of a transition plan relies on various assumptions, external factors and dependencies. Join BSR’s Ameer Azim and Giulio Berruti, along with WBA’s Romain Poivet to explore business model alignment, critical assumptions, and external dependencies shaping your CTP. Alongside expert insights, this peer-driven session provides a collaborative space to share experience, best practices and challenges in navigating the transition.

Scheduled Speakers

• Ameer Azim, Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
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Ameer Azim
Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
Washington, D.C.
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Ameer leads BSR’s climate work in the US and works closely with BSR’s Technology sector companies.
Ameer helps BSR members develop strategies to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and enhance business resilience through climate risk assessment using climate scenario analysis and planning. He also works with BSR member companies on developing resilient and sustainable value chains.
Ameer was previously working with BSR’s Financial Services sector companies and led the Business Alliance to Scale Climate Solutions, a BSR carbon markets collaborative initiative now known as the Beyond Alliance.
Prior to joining BSR, Ameer was the chief financial economist at Climate Advisers Trust and Orbitas, where he conducted research on climate scenario analysis and financial research for the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector and engaged institutional investors on deforestation risks in investment portfolios. Ameer also brings over a decade of capital markets experience at financial institutions like ABN Amro, Citi, and Barclays Bank.
Ameer holds a MS in Sustainability Management from Columbia University and a BA in Economics and Government from College of William and Mary
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Recent Insights From Ameer Azim
• BSR Climate Scenarios 2025 / May 15, 2025 / Reports
• Charting the Course: Navigating the Climate Transition Plan Landscape / February 20, 2025 / Reports
• Climate Scenario Analysis: It’s about More than CSRD Compliance / July 3, 2024 / Blog
• The Environmental Impacts of AI / June 4, 2024 / Audio
• A Business Guide to Responsible and Sustainable AI / March 27, 2024 / Insights+
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• Giulio Berruti, Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
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Giulio Berruti
Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
Copenhagen
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Giulio brings over 14 years of expertise in advancing corporate climate action.
He leads BSR’s climate team, oversees the team strategy, and works with BSR members across consulting, collaborative initiatives, and grants implementation.
Currently, Giulio oversees BSR’s work on beyond growth to reconcile business models with planetary boundaries, and more generally works with BSR members on climate transition planning and net-zero value chains. 
Since joining BSR in 2018, Giulio’s work has focused on Scope 3 implementation through supplier engagement, and commodities decarbonization strategies, both through consulting and support developments open-source guidance such as 1.5°C Supplier Engagement Guide, Transform to  Net Zero and Climate Fit.
Giulio also worked on several projects helping companies set Science-Based Targets, implement TCFD recommendations, and conduct climate scenario analysis. He supported the development of SBTi Net Zero standard as a member of the Expert Advisory Group.
Prior to joining BSR, Giulio spent 7 years with EcoAct between France and Kenya, focusing on climate advisory work on GHG mitigation, target setting and climate strategies, climate risk assessments and carbon offset project development.
Giulio holds a MS in Sustainability from HEC Paris School of Management. He also holds a double degree MS in Management and Industrial Engineering and a double degree BS in Technology and International Business from Politecnico di Torino and UIC Barcelona.
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Recent Insights From Giulio Berruti
• Resilient Business within Planetary Boundaries / March 20, 2025 / Reports
• CSDDD: A De Facto Climate Due Diligence Law That Safeguards People / September 23, 2024 / Blog
• Scaling Investment in Carbon Credits with Integrity / July 2, 2024 / Blog
• The CSDDD: Compliance Meets Sustainability Ambitions / June 20, 2024 / Insights+
• 1.5°C Targets: The Business Case for a Climate Transition Plan / May 30, 2024 / Blog
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• Romain Poivet , Climate and Energy Engagement Lead, World Benchmarking Alliance