ACCELERATING THE TRANSITION TO SAFER CHEMISTRY
This blended capital fund is embedding safer chemistry metrics and tools in consumer-facing supply chains to systematically reduce and ultimately eliminate toxic chemical pollution.
The Safer Chemistry Impact (SCI) Fund
A multi-stakeholder initiative created to mobilize global investment for systematically replacing hazardous chemicals with alternatives that are verified to be safer for humans and the environment. The fund will identify, fund, scale, and measure impact solutions to embed safer chemistry across supply chains as the standard operating system.
The four core components of the fund include:
DATA TRUST: COMPREHENSIVE DATA UNDERPINS SAFER CHEMISTRY
As a first step toward accelerating and measuring the transition to safer chemistry, the Safer Chemistry Impact Fund has invested in the Chemical Hazard Data Trust managed by ChemFORWARD, a science-based non-profit organization.
ChemFORWARD has built upon established practices for chemical hazard assessment and has pioneered a digital infrastructure for the creation and maintenance of chemical hazard data, as well as a harmonized chemical rating system to facilitate comparison between hazard-based programs. The Chemical Hazard Data Trust is creating broad access to chemical hazard information that can empower the transition to safer chemistry by making it measurable.
IMPACT PROGRAMS: SAFER CHEMISTRY AS THE STANDARD OPERATING SYSTEM
The Fund has created a docket of programs and projects to activate systems change across supply chains. These are assembled annually for the release of funds.
The Fund will provide grants or contracts via an RFP process to organizations that have the capacity to address these strategic needs.
RFPs can be found HERE
KNOWLEDGE HUB: INSTILLING HOPE, CULTIVATING AGENCY
We believe in our collective ability to systematically reduce, and one day eliminate, chemical pollution.
The Fund is executing on a science-based, data-driven communications strategy tailored to sectors that serves as an engine to frame the opportunity, instill optimism, and create agency throughout the supply chain.
METRICS: ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVING OUR MISSION
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.”
In 2024, SCI Fund published firsts-of-its-kind safer chemistry metrics and then rigorously tested them in multiple supply chains culminating in the 2026 release of the Safer Chemistry Impact Metrics Framework.
The SCI Metrics Framework marks a pivotal milestone in the global transition to verified safer chemistry by establishing a common measurement architecture for translating chemical inventory and hazard information into standardized metrics that enable organizations to understand, benchmark, track progress toward safer chemistry over time, and compare results across companies and industry sectors.
