SF Climate week 2026
From Ambition to Action:
Building a sustainability program that actually works
Mid-market companies face a real paradox: sustainability expectations from customers, investors, and regulators are accelerating, yet most organizations don’t have a dedicated internal team to keep up. This lunch & learn — co-hosted by Greenplaces, Sensiba LLP, and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP — gives you a practical, phased path forward.
Date
April 21, 2026
Time
12:00 – 1:00PM PT
Format
In-person lunch & learn
Cost
Free
Why this matters now
Sustainability expectations are rising. Internal resources aren’t keeping pace.
Purpose-driven mid-market companies are navigating an increasingly complex landscape: client sustainability questionnaires, investor ESG requirements, B Corp and EcoVadis certifications, GHG accounting standards, and a patchwork of evolving legal obligations — often without a dedicated sustainability team to manage any of it. The result is fragmented programs, duplicated effort, and growing exposure.
This session brings together the platform infrastructure, financial and assurance expertise, and legal perspective needed to consolidate your sustainability efforts into a program that’s integrated, credible, and built to grow — starting from wherever your organization is today.
What’s covered
Three things you can act on before the week is out
Every topic is anchored to operational reality — built for organizations that need to make real progress without standing up a dedicated sustainability function first.
The consolidation imperative
How to stop managing B Corp, EcoVadis, GHG, and CDP in silos — and integrate your sustainability efforts into a single source of truth using the right tools and advisory support. This isn’t about adding more software. It’s about building infrastructure that does the work once and feeds every framework that requires it.
Credibility through data
Why third-party assurance and rigorous emissions accounting are becoming non-negotiable for stakeholder trust — and how companies of any size can get there. We’ll cover what audit-ready Scope 1, 2, and 3 data looks like, what verifiers and investors are actually checking, and what a practical path to assurance readiness involves.
Start where you are
A phased approach for mid-market companies to build or strengthen a sustainability program today — minimizing legal risk, avoiding common greenwashing exposures, and making meaningful progress without a dedicated sustainability team. This is the session’s core deliverable: a realistic roadmap grounded in where your organization actually is.
Meet the speakers
Platform, assurance, and legal expertise — in one room
This session brings together three practitioners whose work sits at the intersection of sustainability strategy, data infrastructure, financial assurance, and legal risk, covering the full picture of what it takes to build a program that’s both operational and defensible.
Reserve your seat
Space is limited — register early
This session is part of SF Climate Week 2026 and is open to sustainability leaders, finance and operations executives, general counsels, and founders at purpose-driven mid-market companies. Lunch is provided courtesy of Sensiba.
Go deeper
More from Greenplaces on building sustainability programs that scale
Whether you’re consolidating fragmented frameworks, preparing for third-party assurance, or building your first structured carbon accounting program, Greenplaces gives mid-market organizations the platform and professional services to do it without standing up a dedicated sustainability team from scratch.
