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, Good.Lab
Andries leads Good.Lab, which helps companies build GHG reporting programs that hold up to regulators, customers and auditors. He brings more than two decades of experience in accounting and advisory, including leading the blockchain practice at Armanino, a top 20 public accounting firm, serving as CEO of The Brenner Group in Silicon Valley, and as a partner at Moore Stephens in Shanghai. He has advised fast-scaling companies across three continents.
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.”
