The report contains the company's sustainability roadmap and includes sustainability updates on its business areas—from developing new tools for farmers that are designed to be targeted, effective, and environmentally responsible to vaccine candidates and potential therapies to improve global health outcomes. The report highlights seven agriculture products that could reach the market by 2026, subject to applicable regulatory approvals, and three drug development candidates in the human health portfolio.
“At GreenLight, we believe RNA can play a crucial role in protecting people, plants, and our planet,” said CEO
As a public benefit corporation, GreenLight is sharing its business strategy and how it can impact food security, biodiversity, health, and climate in its 2022 Sustainability Report. “We believe our products in development could be a change of paradigm in crop protection, where better food productivity is possible while respecting the environment,” said
GreenLight is collecting, reporting, and disclosing sustainability data in accordance with international standards. “We have begun tracking key performance indicators that relate to our public-benefit charter and align with our mission to support the UN’s
GreenLight will regularly assess the quality of its sustainability data, focusing on continuous improvements and meeting the expectations of its stakeholders.
About
Founded in 2008, GreenLight aims to address some of the world’s biggest problems by delivering on the full potential of RNA for human health and agriculture. In human health, this includes messenger RNA vaccines and therapeutics. In agriculture, this includes RNA to protect honeybees and a range of crops. The company’s breakthrough cell-free RNA platform, which is protected by numerous patents, allows for cost-effective production of RNA. GreenLight’s human health product candidates are in the pre-clinical stage, and its product candidates for the agriculture market are in the early stages of development or in regulatory review. GreenLight is a public benefit corporation that trades under the ticker GRNA on Nasdaq. For more information, including our latest investor presentation and other materials, please visit https://www.greenlightbiosciences.com/.
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Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release may constitute “forward-looking statements” for purposes of the federal securities laws. Our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our or our management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, including those relating to the success, cost and timing of our research and development activities in our plant and human health programs, the acceptance of RNA-based technologies by regulators and the public, the success, cost and timing of our clinical trials, including estimates regarding when patients will be enrolled, when data will be reported for our ongoing clinical trials and timing to commence future clinical trials, our projected cash runway and our ability to obtain funding for our operations when needed. Forward-looking statements include statements relating to our management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intends,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting us will be those that we have anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond our control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the
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GreenLight is sharing its business strategy and how it can impact food security, biodiversity, health, and climate in its 2022 Sustainability Report.
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