The Environmental Genome Initiative Generates Superior Long Term Value for Investors

We see opportunities to address some of the most existential challenges of our time: the need for many companies to accurately measure their environmental impacts and to initiate product reformulation, equipment redesign, process modification, waste minimization, or recycling initiatives to lighten their environmental footprints that affect all segments of our population through global warming. Increasingly research is also identifying links between pollution and a number of chronic diseases.

We are experts in the challenges we’ve chosen to confront with decades of experience researching industrial pollution prevention, green energy, pharmaceutical and other life science research, process and sustainable systems engineering, chemical circularity, and life cycle impact and risk modeling.

We aim to work together with people and organizations who share our goals and invite investors, foundations and other funding organizations, government agencies, product manufacturers, industry associations, and environmental justice advocates, to work with us to create a safer, healthier world.

“This large knowledge space is what we’re trying to fill with the Environmental Genome Initiative.”

– Dr. Michael Overcash, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Environmental Genome Initiative

Awarded the Innovation in Smart Chemistry Award sponsored by Nike, NASA, U.S. Department of State, Estee Lauder, American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute, and U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Why Collaborate With the Environmental Genome Initiative?

The nonprofit Environmental Genome Initiative is mapping the content, design, manufacturing processes and energy use of the 100,000 industrial chemicals-in-commerce used to make virtually all materials and products worldwide. This is the critical core of the trillions of products of our global society.

We are well positioned with a value-enhancing, open source business model that we believe will provide a clear path for outstanding returns. As policymakers and investors in the U.S. and worldwide are moving to require companies to disclose their climate risk and greenhouse gas emissions, we are providing the data enabling the most accurate, actionable and credible disclosures of the direct and indirect emissions of manufactured products and their environmental impacts.

This next generation life cycle inventory data provides the platform for more accurate climate risk measurement as well as research into a wider range of emissions that impact public health and safety, led by the significant role that environmental pollutants play in causing chronic diseases. This work is lending valuable new insights for epidemiologists, pharmaceutical, medical and other life science researchers. We believe it will yield other large, unforeseen health benefits and lead to mass innovation, just as mapping the human genome enabled. Those innovations returned $144 million for each $1 million invested in mapping.

Most Accurate Estimates Available for Life Cycle Assessments

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.

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Product Fit with a Global Marketplace

Our’s is the largest, transparent chemicals/materials life cycle inventory database in the world, measured the CAS-numbered chemicals. It provides primary data on the content, design, manufacturing processes, and energy use for many corporate programs. EG’s database is many times larger than its closest competitor and the best means for measuring the direct and indirect emissions of manufactured products and their environmental and economic impacts.

Expansion Strategy

Central to our strategy is to go beyond global warming emissions and chronic disease impacts to show how the high level of detail in the Environmental Genome database can support other opportunities. These include environmentally-smart product design, high return on analytics and software applications, assistance in protecting corporate intellectual property in product manufacturing and design by diagnosing unauthorized use, and large challenges in national security.

Investment Returns

The Environmental Genome is playing a major role in supporting climate risk disclosure and mitigation efforts and we believe it will yield many other societal health and safety benefits. We think EG’s open source model will fuel longterm growth while helping to keep operating costs low – delivering strong profitability and cashflow as well as superior returns for investors. The largest investment returns will be in newly developed, high value analytics and software applications using the Environmental Genome data.

Scalability

We’ve developed a high efficiency routing system to map the 100,000 chemicals-in-commerce, used to make all materials and products globally, and to drive down the time and the cost of genome structure mapping through better data mining and physical properties techniques – which helps us manage our growth.

Trusted Data Source and Proprietary Data Tools

The EG database contains high quality, substantially transparent, and engineering-based data files. We’ve developed industrial-based, proprietary search, visualization and reporting of life cycle and chemical process modeling tools to support users conducting detailed process analyses, across entire global supply chains, and comprehensive environmental assessments for credible Scope 3 disclosures.

Purpose Driven Team

Our team has deep experience in chemical engineering, industrial engineering and human health science. Their industry experience includes the aviation, agriculture, building materials, chemicals-in-commerce, energy, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and textile sectors. Their work in green energy, product, process, and supply chain design, chemical circularity and well as the environmental benefits of products informs our vision and our work.

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Applications for the Environmental Genome Database

National Competitiveness and Security

Reduce dependence on foreign supply chains
Identify undisclosed production of chemical weapons
Unauthorized production of cyber technology such as stealth coatings
Measure chemical discharges after natural or manmade accidents and events
Corporate patent violations

Public Health Information Related to all the Products we Consume

Estimate the health impacts of exposures to emissions to air, water, and land
Develop new life science applications
Research and improvements in the social determinants of health (SDOH) with manufacturing plant data on emissions and disability-adjusted life years (DALY)
Quantify the environmental pollutant origins affecting nearly one billion people globally with chronic diseases
Research on ways in which maternal fetal health is impacted by exposure to environmental pollutants
Quantify environmental disparity
Estimate fugitive emissions

Manufacturing and Product Design Improvement

Energy and mass efficiency
Analysis to facilitate technological innovations for energy and material conservation, improved processes, and sustainable product designs
Better manufacturing supply chains
Lower costs due to pollution prevention, reduced water and carbon impacts, and greater efficiencies
Quantify the environmental impacts of new chemicals, materials, colors, coatings, etc. in product designs
Tools that meet the fast-paced demands of the product design process
Capture customer benefits in environmental improvements

Compliance, Communications and Competitiveness

Compliance with local, national, and international environmental regulations
Carbon footprint
Environmental Product Declarations
Building certification
Health, safety, and sustainability claims
Product comparisons
Product cost reductions
Product labeling
Increase competitiveness through chemical improvements and innovation
Safety and risk assessments
Sustainable procurement
Water footprint