Deb Gallagher’s work focuses on motivating business to work with communities to build decarbonization mechanisms which foster resilience and center community needs. Recent work has described approaches in which the private sector can co-create climate solutions with communities and ensure that a transition to renewables from fossil fuels is just. After becoming an emeritus professor at Duke University Deb became a Climate Change Director with BSR (Business for Social Responsibility), where she led efforts to incorporate climate justice within corporate climate strategy. She also directed a collaborative initiative between businesses and community-based organizations to center health equity in corporate climate action, conducted research on the connections between climate and gender in the textile industry in Bangladesh and facilitated a community-led watershed-based climate resiliency project in India. She describes these business actions as a means of reparations for damage created through years of GHG emissions. Deb’s work at Duke focused on business environmental leadership, and the connection between business environmental behavior, public policy and corporate strategy. She spent over a decade leading the Business and Environment Program at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment while conducting research on business environmental leadership behavior with colleagues at the United Nations Global Compact.