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. The Environmental Genome has advised more than 100 organizations on life cycle assessment research and sustainability planning.
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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 large, compiled LCI databases that are likely incomplete or not purpose fit for the project, or imprecise secondary information based on industry averages. The results are highly variable (+/- 400 to 1,000%).
The Environmental Genome’s datasets provide the most actionable and accurate information 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.
Measuring emissions in complex supply chains, within and beyond an organization’s direct control (Scopes 1, 2 and 3), requires additional information and effort. This is the strength of our datasets – documented with detailed process descriptions, process flow diagrams, and energy by process units. Paired with our ability to develop information to fill data gaps and our advanced modeling methodologies, we provide results at a higher level of resolution. That enables a deeper analysis and the measurement of impacts throughout the supply chain.
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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