Climate and Nature

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

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 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.

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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Lara is responsible for leading BSR's Climate and Nature team globally and driving the organization’s work with Member companies' impact consulting, grants, and collaborative initiatives.  

Lara is a sustainability and policy professional with over fifteen years of experience managing partnerships, sustainability initiatives and policy engagement with companies, international organizations, governments, and NGOs.  

Prior to BSR, Lara was Global Head of Sustainability at Sonder, joining in 2020 to establish the corporate responsibility function, implementing policies to engrain responsible business practices across the company pre to post IPO. 

She also serves on the Advisory Board of EQX Biome, a start-up working to mobilize financial markets to protect the world’s remaining biodiversity hotspots. In 2024 Lara started hosting a web series & podcast called Nature IS to raise awareness of the critical need for protection, conservation, and regeneration of biodiversity.  

Lara holds a B.S. degree in International Business & Management from the University of Montana, a M.A. degree in International Trade Policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California and is a World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellow.  

Recent Insights From Lara Birkes

• Climate and Nature Integration 101: In Conversation with Helen Crowley / April 24, 2025 / Blog
• Integrating Climate and Nature: A Dual Approach to Business Resilience / December 5, 2024 / Blog

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Anine works with BSR member companies across industries on sustainability management with a focus on the intersection of climate change and people, namely climate justice, just transition, and climate and human rights. She supports this work through one-on-one advisory engagement with companies, through facilitation of cross-sector collaborative initiatives like Transform to Net Zero, and through grant-funded resource development.

Prior to joining BSR, Anine worked at Operate A/S, a Danish consulting company, specializing in stakeholder analysis, stakeholder mapping, and stakeholder engagement.

Anine holds a MSc in Business and Development Studies from Copenhagen Business School with a focus on sustainable development and cross-sector collaboration. She also holds a BSc in Business, Language, and Culture, also from Copenhagen Business School.

Recent Insights From Anine Bundgård

• Ten Guiding Principles for Co-creating Climate Justice Interventions / January 29, 2024 / Blog
• Co-creating Climate Justice Interventions between Business and Communities / January 17, 2024 / Reports
• Three Business Initiatives That Advance Climate Justice / December 21, 2023 / Blog
• The Just Transition Planning Process for Business / September 11, 2023 / Reports
• Advancing a Just Transition Across Sectors / July 6, 2023 / Blog

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Laura leads BSR’s Nature team. Her focus is working with member companies to develop holistic and credible strategic approaches to address nature related impacts and dependencies. These engagements are conducted across industries, with an additional focus on understanding the linkages between nature and other areas of focus (e.g., human rights, climate, etc.).

Prior to joining BSR, Laura spent seven years on the markets transformation team at the Rainforest Alliance. Her role focused on engaging companies throughout agriculture supply chains in addressing risks and opportunities through incorporating nature-based solutions and interventions. This included working with companies from farm to market on their sustainability strategy utilizing the Rainforest Alliance program. Laura also has experience in the beauty industry, where she worked in brand management and marketing.

Laura holds a Master of Communication Management from the University of Southern California and a BS in Business Administration from Boston University.

Recent Insights From Laura Donnelly

• Is Your Company Ready for TNFD? / September 24, 2024 / Blog
• How Businesses Can Address the Water Scarcity Crisis / December 14, 2023 / Blog
• Five Ways to Activate Your Board on Nature / September 13, 2023 / Blog
• Decoding Nature’s Soundscapes / April 5, 2023 / Blog
• Back to Nature: A Call to Action / March 28, 2023 / Insights+

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Julie serves as Manager of BSR’s Climate team, where she brings over 10 years of experience in corporate sustainability and climate action and supports BSR members with their climate strategies.

After joining BSR in 2021, Julie worked on multiple projects helping companies implementing TCFD recommendations, conducting climate scenario analysis (for the tech, financial and insurance industry), accelerating Net Zero transition, implementing just transition approaches (extractive industry) and scope 3 strategies (consumer goods sector). Since 2023, Julie manages BSR grant-funded work dedicated to Climate Transition Plans.

Julie is also co-developing BSR’s work on alternative business models addressing the tension between business growth and sustainability targets.

Prior to joining BSR, Julie worked in Mazars’s sustainability services and risk practice, where she audited and advised companies on their ESG data and internal audit, control and risk approaches. During her time within Mazars, Julie also spent six months at the Mexico City office.

Julie holds a master’s degree in business from Kedge Business School and spent one semester at the University of Nottingham and another one at the University of Technology of Sydney. She speaks French, English, and Spanish.

Recent Insights From Julie Dugard

• Resilient Business within Planetary Boundaries / March 20, 2025 / Reports
• EU Omnibus: It’s Time to Shift Focus from Compliance to Impact / March 10, 2025 / Insights+
• Charting the Course: Navigating the Climate Transition Plan Landscape / February 20, 2025 / Reports
• The Elephant in the Sustainability Room / May 6, 2024 / Reports
• A Credible Future beyond Growth / June 13, 2023 / Blog

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Adam works with BSR member companies across industries on sustainability management, including stakeholder engagement, materiality, strategy and reporting, among other topics.

Prior to BSR, Adam was a thematic expert on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the International Institute for Sustainable Development, focusing on the linkages between climate, development, business, and sustainable consumption and production. He previously worked on the SDGs team at World Resources Institute. During his graduate studies, Adam interned at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and was a Coca-Cola World Fund fellow with Conservation International, researching the strategic connections between the SDGs and corporate sustainability.

Adam holds a Master’s in Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment, specializing in Business and the Environment. He has a BA in Environmental Studies and Government, with a concentration in International Politics, from Wesleyan University.

Recent Insights From Adam Fishman

• Sustainability Strategy in the Age of Regulation: Don’t Lose the Plot / October 3, 2024 / Blog
• The Impact of Mandatory Sustainability Reporting on Corporate Functions / September 11, 2024 / Blog
• The Impact Across Business Units with Adam Fishman / November 28, 2023 / Audio
• The Evolving Reporting Landscape / September 18, 2023 / Insights+
• How New Regulations Are a Game-Changer in Just and Sustainable Business / June 1, 2023 / Insights+

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With nearly 20 years of experience, Eileen works with multinational companies to address climate change. She specializes in improving business strategy to consider how climate change and its solutions affect society, the environment, and the economy. 

Eileen directs BSR’s advisory and grant-funded work where climate intersects with human rights and equity, inclusion, and justice. She also supports companies with climate risk and scenario analysis, emissions reduction targets, and net-zero roadmaps. ​Eileen is BSR’s climate lead in the Asia-Pacific region, where she analyzed how climate change affects vulnerable nations, its people, and global supply chains. ​

Prior to joining BSR in 2017, Eileen served as a sustainability consultant, supporting companies on sustainability strategy development, strategic stakeholder engagement, and environmental management. While working at a public policy organization, she gained experience in international development, climate policy analysis, and effective communications. ​

Eileen holds a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut. ​

Recent Insights From Eileen Gallagher

• Ten Guiding Principles for Co-creating Climate Justice Interventions / January 29, 2024 / Blog
• Co-creating Climate Justice Interventions between Business and Communities / January 17, 2024 / Reports
• Three Business Initiatives That Advance Climate Justice / December 21, 2023 / Blog
• COP28: Tackling Fossil Fuels, and a Final Push to Keep 1.5 Alive / November 29, 2023 / Insights+
• Advancing a Just Transition Across Sectors / July 6, 2023 / Blog

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