Scope 3 Under Tariffs & The CSO Authority Gap: A Working Session for 20 Sustainability Leads
[ confirmed attendees - ChargePoint, Kaiser Permanente, Palo Alto Networks ]
2026 is when climate commitments hit organizational reality.
How This Works
This is a structured peer diagnostic for 20 in-house climate leaders. No keynotes. No panels.
You arrive with a key problem where you need support. Two tables with facilitators host hot seats to present your problem, and peers to help you troubleshoot, with an eye toward resolution. You leave with a commitment. We follow up to support resolution.
Table 1 — Scope 3 in a Disrupted World. For procurement and supply chain leaders navigating broken baselines and closing reporting windows.
Table 2 — The Authority Gap. For CSOs and sustainability leads who own enterprise-wide targets but don't control the budget, procurement, or supplier relationships to deliver them.
Every sustainability lead at SFCW this year knows two things they can't say in public:
Your Scope 3 baseline is probably broken. Tariffs reshuffled your supply chain. Suppliers you spent years onboarding are being swapped for unfamiliar alternatives. And SB 253 Scope 1 & 2 reporting is due August 10, with Scope 3 next year. The compliance clock didn't pause while your procurement team rewired the supplier portfolio.
You own targets you can't deliver alone. Enterprise-wide climate commitments sit on your desk, but the budget, procurement authority, and supplier relationships sit in someone else's org chart. You know what needs to happen. You can't make it happen without internal buy-in you haven't secured.
These are the two hardest problems in corporate climate right now. SFCW has 700+ events where you can hear about them from a panel. This is the one room where you work on yours.
Who This Is For
Directors, VPs, and Heads of Sustainability who own climate targets at their organizations. You should come if:
You have a specific decision or blocker you're willing to put on the table
You're an in-house practitioner (not a consultant, vendor, or ecosystem partner)
You'll commit to sharing what you learn and following through on your next step
Chatham House rules. 20 seats.
About your Facilitators
David Jaber is the founder of Climate Positive Consulting (a Certified B Corporation) and has spent 20+ years advising 200+ companies on GHG measurement, SBTi target-setting, and decarbonization strategy. He is an SBTi Certified Expert and teaches Carbon Management and Business Strategy at UC Berkeley Extension and Terra.do. David is a Project Drawdown Fellow, a contributor to Trellis (GreenBiz), and author of Climate Positive Business: How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero (Routledge).
Angela Tseng spent a decade leading complex enterprise negotiations — a $670M outsourcing mandate at Oliver Wyman and 300+ multinational partner deals at Hawaiian Airlines. She now applies that operational rigor to climate tech advisory and corporate carbon procurement and net-zero implementation. She has convened 3 closed-door CSO roundtables (550+ RSVPs) in 2025 that surfaced how to unlock corporate carbon credit purchasing decisions. She serves as CSO Insights lead at CDR.fyi and on the Carbon Unbound Advisory Board.
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