The Elephant in the Sustainability Room

May 6, 2024

Giulio Berruti

Director, Climate Change, BSR

Giulio Berruti

Director, Climate Change, BSR

Copenhagen

Giulio leads BSR's climate work in the EMEA region. BSR works globally on value chain decarbonization across consulting, collaborative initiatives, and grants. Giulio brings expertise in Scope 3 supplier engagement, reverse sourcing, and commodities decarbonization, as well as helping companies implement their net zero and environmental targets. He also works across sectors on implementing the TCFD recommendations and climate scenario analysis.

Prior to joining BSR, Giulio worked for climate change consulting firm EcoAct in both France and Kenya. His work focused on climate targets, carbon neutrality, and project implementation, as well climate risk assessments. He speaks English, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Giulio holds an M.S. in Sustainability from HEC Paris School of Management. He also holds a double degree M.S. in Management and Industrial Engineering and a double degree B.S. in Technology and International Business from Politecnico di Torino and UIC Barcelona
Julie Dugard

Manager, Climate Change, BSR

Julie Dugard

Manager, Climate Change, BSR

Paris

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.
Kaia Ling

Associate, Climate, BSR

Kaia Ling

Associate, Climate, BSR

Singapore

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.
Sandrine Moubarak

Associate, Consumer Sectors, BSR

Sandrine Moubarak

Associate, Consumer Sectors, BSR

Paris

Sandrine supports BSR member companies across industries and areas of expertise, with a focus on supply chain sustainability and sustainability management.

Prior to joining BSR, Sandrine worked as Program Manager at Makesense in the Philippines, where she designed and coordinated various initiatives to promote social and environmental action across the country. There, she led the Plastic Smart Cities program in partnership with WWF, where she supported and coached social entrepreneurs in creating viable solutions to eradicate plastic pollution. She has also intervened as an external consultant on sustainability-linked projects for companies in the logistics, agricultural, and social sectors.

Sandrine holds a BCom in Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Social Business Strategy from McGill University and a MSc in Sustainability and Social Innovation from HEC Paris. She speaks French, English, Spanish and Arabic.

After a decade of setting environmental commitments, the company's focus has shifted to delivery.

This implementation phase is proving challenging for many. Despite some progress, many companies find they are progressing at a slower pace than expected. While the lack of a supporting policy environment certainly contributes to these challenges, in many cases, they are also a result of business objectives that remain at odds with sustainability targets.

This foundational working paper builds on BSR’s Beyond Growth event series, and is the first in BSR’s ongoing contribution to critical business discussions to address this tension. It explores:

The fundamental issues and barriers creating this tension
How alternative economic models are an underexplored solution
How can business address the tension between growth and sustainability targets, including through business model transformation

BSR is committed to exploring all paths to effectively deliver long-term sustainability goals, and will continue to contribute to this critical discussion with members.

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