Climate Transition Plans for the Food, Beverage & Agriculture Sector

BSR Members Only

Date and Time

March 7, 2024
10:00 am-11:00 am EST

Location

Webinar

Topic

Food, Beverage, and Agriculture | Climate Change

This BSR Learning Lab will dive into climate transition plan (CTP) guidance that is specific to the food, beverage, and agriculture sector. In this session, participants will collectively explore relevant climate action strategies to achieve sector-specific ecological transition objectives. We will facilitate the conversation focused on shared experiences, learnings, and perspectives to tackle common challenges while developing CTPs.

Scheduled Speakers

• Julie Dugard, Manager, Climate Change, BSR
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Julie Dugard
Manager, Climate Change, BSR
Paris
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Julie is part of BSR’s climate change team, where she develops climate change and sustainability strategies for BSR members across multiple industries.
Prior to joining BSR, Julie worked in Mazars’s sustainability services practice, where she was a CSR manager. She audited and advised companies on their ESG data, CSR and climate ambitions, risk approaches over a broad range of sectors (retail, automotive industry, services, insurance). 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 attending sustainability courses. She speaks French, English, and Spanish.
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• Deb Gallagher, Director, Climate Change, BSR
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Deb Gallagher
Director, Climate Change, BSR
New York
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Deb leads BSR’s climate work in the US. She works closely with BSR’s external partnership teams to accelerate decarbonization while engendering climate justice. She works with Transform to Net Zero (TONZ) collaborative initiative members to amplify leadership behaviors that promote a just and resilient future. Deb leads efforts to create a series of TONZ Transformation Guides on issues such as climate transition action plans (CTAPs), climate policy engagement, and climate justice.
Prior to joining BSR, Deb was a professor at Duke University, where she led the Business and Environment program. Her research focused on business leadership behaviors required to advance sustainability, including stakeholder relationship management, ESG data acquisition and use, public policy engagement, and design of strategic partnerships. Over the course of 20 years at Duke, she mentored over 200 sustainability leaders. Prior to Duke, she held environmental leadership positions in manufacturing and government.
Deb holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University
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