Business Action for Climate Adaptation: Ensuring Co-Benefits for Communities

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  Eileen Gallagher

  Director, Climate and Nature, BSR

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  Eileen Gallagher

  Director, Climate and Nature, BSR

  

  Hong Kong

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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. ​

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  Julie Dugard

  Associate Director, Climate and Nature, BSR

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  Julie Dugard

  Associate Director, Climate and Nature, BSR

  

  Paris

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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.

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  Recent Insights From Julie Dugard

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  Kaia Ling

  Associate, Climate and Nature, BSR

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  Kaia Ling

  Associate, Climate and Nature, BSR

  

  Singapore

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  Kaia works with BSR member companies across industries on sustainability management, with a focus on climate change, supply chain sustainability, and consumer sectors.

  Prior to joining BSR, Kaia supported the development of the innovation and sustainability department in an alternative protein start-up, where she focused on developing a holistic sustainability roadmap and strategy and performing a baseline assessment to identify opportunities of improvement in sustainability performance. She started her career in a boutique sustainability consultancy firm focusing on plastic waste advisory and has experience working with private companies and governmental agencies, such as the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy in Qatar, to promote the management of plastic waste in their operations and supply chain.

  Kaia holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Environmental Earth Systems Science, specializing in ecology, from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is fluent in English and Mandarin.

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  Recent Insights From Kaia Ling

  • Business Action for Climate Adaptation: Ensuring Co-Benefits for Communities / November 6, 2025 / Reports
  • Applying a Systems-Based Approach to Move from Climate Risk to Resilience / October 16, 2025 / Reports
  • Resilient Business within Planetary Boundaries / March 20, 2025 / Reports
  • The Elephant in the Sustainability Room / May 6, 2024 / Reports

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Since 2000, climate-related disasters have caused over US$3.6 trillion in global economic losses, with costs rising as extreme weather becomes more frequent and intense. Such climate impacts threaten business’ financial performance, continuity, and the communities that companies rely on, who face lost livelihoods, increased illness, disrupted essential services, and displacement. Among them, children and youth, women, and migrant workers bear the heaviest burden while being critical to business resilience through their current and future roles in the workforce, supply chains, and markets.

However, ongoing levels of adaptation finance and private sector action remain insufficient to protect long-term business value and operational resilience. To help companies respond to the converging challenges of climate change and community vulnerability, UNICEF and BSR have developed a suite of complementary tools that guide companies from understanding and committing to adaptation, to engaging effectively with policymakers, to collaborating with peers and partners to scale impact. They offer a clear pathway to accelerate investment in climate adaptation with co-benefits for communities, including children.

The tools are:

• The Imperative for Business Action on Climate Adaptation, Ensuring Co-Benefits for Communities: Understand how to make a compelling case for adaptation with co-benefits for communities, including children, within companies.
• 8 Key Elements to Accelerate Climate Adaptation with Co-Benefits for Communities: Discover core components of corporate adaptation plans that can help create shared value for business and communities.
• Strengthening Corporate Engagement with Policymakers on Community-Centered Adaptation: Learn how and why companies can engage with policymakers on Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans, and access 10 policy asks that companies can tailor to national and sectoral contexts.

Interested in strengthening your company’s climate adaptation plans? Reach out to BSR’s Climate and Nature team.