What's Covered
- SB 253 Deadline and Requirements. The August 10, 2026 first reporting deadline is confirmed. We cover what's required, what CARB expects in a good-faith first submission, and how the first year sets the baseline for everything that follows.
- SB 261 Status and Early Filer Insights. Enforcement is paused pending the Ninth Circuit appeal, but early filers are setting a high bar. We review 100+ submissions from CARB's public docket and share what we found.
- Scope 3 and What Comes Next. Scope 3 reporting begins in 2027. We cover what companies need to be doing now to be ready, including supplier engagement and data infrastructure decisions.
- Applicability and Scoping. Revenue thresholds, entity structures, and what counts as doing business in California. We walk through the questions we hear most often.
What You'll Learn
- Whether SB 253 or SB 261 applies to your company. Revenue thresholds and entity structures make this harder to determine than it looks. We give you a framework for working it out.
- What a good-faith first submission looks like. CARB has signaled enforcement flexibility in year one. We explain what that means in practice and what you actually need to have ready by August.
- How to use SB 261 to get ahead. Early filers are comprehensive and TCFD-aligned. Seeing what they've submitted is one of the best ways to understand what CARB expects.
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Meet the presenters
Andries Verschelden
Co-Founder & CEO
Andries has had a variety of consulting and management roles throughout his career. He has worked with fast-scaling clients across three continents. Prior to founding Good.Lab, Andries led the blockchain practice at Armanino, a top 20 public accounting firm, was CEO at The Brenner Group, a boutique Silicon Valley financial services firm, and was a partner at Moore Stephens in Shanghai.
Ted Grozier
Chief Sustainability Officer
Ted is a consultant and project manager who is expert at turning ESG innovation into business success. He was an Engagement Manager at GreenOrder, the pioneering consulting firm that Fortune called the “go-to guys for green business.”
