Day One- July 14th - PT (Pacific Time, GMT-08:00)
An up-to-date look at how ESG and decarbonization priorities are shifting in 2026, with a focus on West Coast regulation, insurance pressure, capital constraints, and what real estate teams are actually prioritizing this year.
What has changed since last summer
How West Coast regulations are shaping national expectations (and vice versa)
Where owners are pulling back vs doubling down on ESG
How capital markets are viewing decarbonization today
What sustainability teams are being asked to deliver in 2026
For many real estate owners, ESG has shifted from a valueadd to a core risk management tool. This session focuses on how ESG is being used to protect asset value by addressing insurance pressure, regulatory exposure, climate risk, and growing scrutiny from investors and lenders — particularly across West Coast markets.
Talking points:
When ESG became more about downside protection than upside
How insurance availability and pricing are influencing ESG priorities
Where ESG gaps are creating real risk at the asset and portfolio level
How investors and lenders are using ESG as a proxy for risk management
How owners are prioritizing ESG initiatives that protect value today
Insurance markets across the West Coast have shifted rapidly over the past year, forcing real estate owners to move beyond highlevel climate risk models and into real, asset level decisions. This session explores how climate risk assessments are now being used in underwriting, insurance renewals, and capital planning — and where gaps still exist between models and reality.
How wildfire, heat, and flood risk are showing up differently in insurance conversations than they did 6–12 months ago
How climate risk assessments are influencing underwriting, pricing, and coverage terms
Where climate models help decision‑making — and where they fall short at the asset level
Turning climate risk insights into practical actions that improve insurability and resilience
How owners are prioritizing risk mitigation investments under capital constraints
As regulatory pressure increases and capital remains constrained, decarbonization planning has become a balancing act. This session looks at how real estate firms are translating emissions targets into realistic capital plans, prioritizing upgrades, and adjusting timelines based on market and operational realities.
What a “credible” decarbonization plan looks like today compared to a year ago
How owners are sequencing projects across portfolios rather than tackling everything at once
Where capital constraints are forcing trade‑offs or delayed timelines
Aligning decarbonization plans with asset strategy, hold periods, and refinancing cycles
Who internally owns decarbonization decisions — and how accountability is structured
A peer-to-peer discussion focused on how West Coast owners are navigating wildfire exposure, post natural-event recovery, insurance fallout, and ongoing operational disruption from climate-driven events.
Talking points:
How wildfire risk is changing acquisition, disposition, and hold decisions
What owners learned from recent wildfire seasons that they didn’t anticipate
Managing insurance claims, rebuilding timelines, and permitting delays
Operational challenges around tenant safety, access, and business continuity
Where state and local policy is helping — and where it’s creating friction
As regulatory pressure, energy costs, and reporting expectations increase, green leasing is becoming more common — and more complicated. This roundtable focuses on how owners and tenants are actually negotiating lease language around sustainability, data sharing, and operating responsibilities today.
Sustainability provisions that are actually making it into leases
Where negotiations with tenants tend to stall or break down
Sharing energy, water, and emissions data between owners and tenants
Allocating costs for upgrades, compliance, and ongoing performance
How green leases are being used to support broader ESG and reporting goals
Electrification continues to move forward across the West Coast, but grid capacity, interconnection timelines, and costs remain real constraints. This workshop focuses on how owners are approaching electrification in today’s utility and regulatory environment.
Talking points:
Where electrification makes sense today — and where it doesn’t
Integrating EV charging, solar, and storage without overloading systems
Navigating grid capacity limits and utility coordination
Sequencing energy upgrades to manage cost and disruption
How electrification strategies have changed over the past year
Data expectations around building performance continue to rise. This workshop looks at how owners are collecting, managing, and using building-level data across energy, water, and waste to support benchmarking, reporting, and external scrutiny.
Connecting building systems across portfolios to create usable data
Benchmarking performance internally and against peers
Common data gaps, quality issues, and workflow challenges
Preparing data for regulators, lenders, investors, and insurers
How better data is informing operational and capital decisions
Water availability and cost are becoming more visible risks for West Coast real estate. This roundtable explores how owners are responding to drought conditions, regulatory pressure, and rising utility costs across different asset types.
Where water risk is most acute across West Coast portfolios
How drought conditions are influencing operational planning
Water efficiency upgrades owners are prioritizing right now
Using metering and data to identify and manage water exposure
How water risk is being incorporated into broader resilience planning
Waste performance and materials management continue to be challenging across portfolios. This roundtable looks at how owners are approaching waste reduction, diversion, and materials decisions as expectations from tenants, cities, and investors continue to increase.
Portfolio-wide waste and recycling strategies that are actually working
Managing tenant behavior and participation
Tracking waste performance and diversion data
Cost and operational tradeoffs owners are navigating
Where circular and materials reuse approaches are starting to gain traction
AI is being used more widely for carbon modeling and climate risk analysis, but adoption remains uneven across real estate. This workshop focuses on how owners are actually using AI tools today, what problems they solve well, and where limitations still exist.
Where AI is currently being applied in carbon and climate modeling
What has changed in AI tools over the past year
Data inputs required to produce useful, defensible outputs
How firms are validating AI-driven results internally
Using AI outputs to support real asset and portfolio decisions
Environmental risk doesn’t stop at acquisition. This session focuses on how owners are managing ongoing environmental compliance and operational risk, including emerging issues like PFAS that are beginning to impact insurance, financing, and asset level decision-making.
Managing environmental compliance across operating portfolios post-acquisition
How environmental issues are shifting from diligence to day-to-day operations
Where PFAS and other emerging contaminants are starting to surface in assets
Monitoring, documentation, and reporting expectations owners are facing today
How environmental risk is influencing underwriting, insurance, and lender scrutiny