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Bahar Carroll is a lead member of the Climate & Sustainability practice at Boston Consulting Group. She applies the climate and sustainability lens to her work across energy, supply chain, and corporate finance topics. Bahar has experience in engineering process management, chemical procurement, and R&D scale-up. She has worked with cross-functional teams across regions and cultures, including Asia, Europe and the Middle-East.

Bahar’s recent client engagements include supporting BCG's partnership with a major climate fund on a range of strategic topics, including developing a climate impact measurement framework; supporting the transformation office at an energy supplier; developing an ESG strategy for a consumer company including initiatives in packaging decarbonization, and regenerative agriculture; and identifying climate priorities for a US region.

Before joining the firm, Bahar worked at Bemis Associates, a family-run adhesives manufacturer, as the Global Sustainability Manager. Prior to that, she worked as a Product Manager for an MIT-based startup at the intersection of engineering R&D and business, delivering on critical milestones for Fortune 500 clients.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management
  • MSc, materials science and engineering, North Carolina State University
  • BSc, materials science and engineering, Sharif University of Technology

Publications and Videos

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What Today’s Climate Tech Can Learn from Yesterday’s Energy Transitions

Four major barriers stand between emerging climate technologies and adoption at scale. Here’s how earlier pioneering technologies—wind, CCGT, renewables, LNG, and solar—overcame them.

How Breakthrough Energy Accelerates Climate Innovation at Scale

Mike Boots, executive vice president of Breakthrough Energy, discusses the importance of supporting climate tech companies through every stage of the innovation cycle.

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Climate Needs and Market Demand Drive Future for Durable CDR

Removing carbon dioxide directly from the air—at scale. That’s just one of the innovative Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies that’s not only gathering investment momentum but also helping the world target net zero goals. And growing market demand is sure to follow.
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Ushering in the Next Generation of Climate Technology

To achieve global net zero by 2050, climate technologies need to deploy and scale more quickly. Here’s how companies and investors can make it happen.