As the world transitions to a low-carbon economy, companies are under significant pressure to decarbonize, transition to renewable energy and materials, develop resilience to the effects of climate change, and embrace the circular economy. To do that they must reduce their climate and other lifecycle impacts and eliminate waste through the superior design of products, processes and supply chains.
Investors representing tens of trillions of dollars in the U.S. and hundreds of large corporate purchasers with more than $5 trillion in procurement spending power are pressing firms to report their environmental data. The movement toward government-mandated disclosures of climate risk and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide is expanding.
The manufacturing sector, a heavy user of energy and natural resources, is on the front lines of the transition. Forrester Research reported in 2021 that manufacturing has the highest rates of emission reduction targets and carbon neutral date commitments of any sector in the Fortune Global 200. A number of these companies rely on the Environmental Genome for the most detailed, accurate and actionable life cycle inventory data available.
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Currently, investors, companies, procurement professionals, and regulators are reliant on a life cycle industry with datasets still in development. Too often firms rely on environmental impact studies built on secondary information based on industry averages inappropriate for this use. The results are imprecise and highly variable (+/- 400 to 1,000%).
The Environmental Genome’s datasets provide the most actionable and accurate (+/- 10 to 20%) estimates available for Life Cycle Assessment – used worldwide to study the environmental and economic impacts of products and services throughout the product life cycle from raw materials acquisition, through processing, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, use, and disposal.
The high level of detail in the EG database can support numerous, diverse opportunities. These include smart product design to achieve reduced environmental impacts, high potential return for analytics and software applications, tools and data to protect corporate intellectual property in product manufacturing and design by diagnosing unauthorized use, and large challenges in dealing with global supply chains affecting our national security.
The non-profit Environmental Genome is the largest transparent life cycle inventory database of CAS-numbered chemicals in the world, used by many corporate programs across industry sectors. This next generation inventory life cycle inventory database provides the most detailed and accurate Life Cycle Assessment estimates available.
The EG provides primary data on the content, design, manufacturing processes, energy use, and chemical emissions at the product level, enabling the most accurate Life Cycle Assessment estimates available. Its detailed reports enable credible and publicly defensible emissions disclosures and the means for Scope 3 reporting of the indirect emissions of a company’s suppliers and others in the upstream and downstream activities in their value chains.
Use EG’s information to go beyond CO2 emissions, to assess the wider range of emissions (including fugitive emissions), energy and mass efficiency, and to facilitate innovations that may save energy and water and yield improved processes, sustainable product designs, and better supply chains. It is one of the most powerful diagnostic tools available to chart pathways to higher efficiencies and lower costs.
The EG database contains high quality, substantially transparent, and engineering-based data files. Its chemical profiles include the entire supply chain mapped back to natural resources in the earth. Product designers can use EG data to quantify the environmental impacts of new chemicals, materials, colors, coatings, etc. to create more efficient and sustainable product designs that have a lower environmental footprint. Our tools meet the fast-paced demands of the product design process.
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