Razerthe world’s leading lifestyle brand for gamers, officially launched GAIADEX, a large-scale language model for life cycle assessments (LCA), at the Singapore Pavilion during the COP29 event. GAIADEX offers a comprehensive and simplified solution for Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in various industries. To demonstrate its capabilities, Razer has collaborated with industry leaders such as GE Healthcare and Maybank on conceptual implementations.
The challenge
GAIADEX addresses a major challenge in the sustainability sector: the inconsistency of environmental standards. Many brands create their own life cycle assessments, each with varying methodologies and data, making it difficult to compare products between competitors. This lack of standardization prevents meaningful comparisons, generates consumer skepticism, and complicates regulatory oversight, while leading to inefficiencies due to duplication of effort in developing individual standards.
«We believe that sustainability should be accessible to everyone. “GAIADEX is our commitment to removing barriers and making it easier for businesses to adopt greener practices,” said Kenneth Ng, Global Director of Sustainability at Razer. By empowering businesses with this innovative solution, we are making LCAs more accessible and efficient while driving the global industry towards a more sustainable and meaningful future.”
Razer’s Solution: Redefining 21st Century Sustainability
GAIADEX was designed to simplify the process of life cycle assessments of products brought to market, from data collection to reporting, significantly reducing the time and effort required to analyze the environmental impact of products from its creation until its elimination. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), GAIADEX compresses months of work into seconds, providing detailed life cycle assessment (LCA) reports validated against international ISO standards (ISO 14040, 14044) and Product Category Rules (PCR) from EPD International.
As sustainability demands grow, particularly around Scope 3 emissions, traditional life cycle assessment processes face significant challenges. Time-consuming manual processes, high costs, and limited accessibility, especially for startups, often restrict the adoption of robust product lifecycle assessment practices. GAIADEX seeks to overcome these challenges by promoting international standards for life cycle assessments, within a transparent and comparable framework.
Advances in certification
Razer understands the value of offering a complete experience for brands to develop their environmental product declaration, the verification of which is necessary for them to be considered credible in the market, which is why Razer is developing features in GAIADEX to facilitate independent declaration certification. (EPD) by program operators such as UL Solutions. UL Solutions has certified the environmental claims for Razer’s Basilisk gaming mice, enabling reliable data disclosure backed by science and published in the UL SPOT database.
GE HealthCare has teamed up with Razer to lead a more sustainable future by quantifying and reducing the environmental impact of GEHC products. As a pilot initiative, the Singapore Engineering and Repair Center used Razer’s innovative GAIADEX platform to evaluate and compare the environmental footprint of various iterations of the Vscan product. This collaboration reinforces GE HealthCare’s commitment to sustainable innovation, with a long-term vision to optimize life cycle assessments (LCAs), reduce operational complexity and costs, and set a new standard for sustainability in the healthcare industry. .
“This collaboration with Razer provides a holistic view of product footprints, supporting our sustainability goals,” said Mark Stoesz, President of Business Solutions and International Market Partnerships. “This initiative (continued) reflects GE HealthCare’s aspiration to align all its products with Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) standards by 2030.” Shahril Azuar Jimin, Chief Sustainability Officer of Maybank Group, a leading bank in ASEAN, commented: “By adopting GAIADEX, we plan to integrate embodied carbon as a primary sustainability performance objective for our green loans and sustainability-linked loans. . “We hope to encourage clients to set more ambitious carbon reduction goals, mobilize sustainable financing and promote environmental responsibility.”
Advances that, with GAIADEX’s intuitive interface, represent new features such as users being able to upload their Bill of Materials (BOM) and, in just 5 minutes, receive detailed life cycle assessment reports that comply with the strict ISO 14040 standards. /14044 and the product category specific rules (PCR). This innovative new technology will enable Razer to transform the sustainability landscape with updated life cycle assessment (LCA) and environmental product declaration (EPD) processes.
A fast, affordable, efficient solution
To ensure these reports meet industry standards, GAIADEX seamlessly integrates with independent verifiers for third-party validation, culminating in the issuance of official eco-labels through an automated and streamlined process. This self-service feature eliminates the need for expensive consulting services, which typically cost $40,000 USD per environmental product declaration (EPD), making sustainability measurement more accessible. By leveraging domain-aware large-scale language models (LLMs), GAIADEX enables organizations, from multinationals to startups, to obtain green environmental product declaration labels quickly and affordably, offering a competitive advantage in the green commerce landscape in evolution.
With GAIADEX, Razer is set to revolutionize the way businesses address environmental responsibility, providing a faster, easier-to-use and more cost-effective solution for businesses around the world.
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