IGC Pharma, Inc.
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2024)
Reporting Period: 2024
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Workplace Safety
- Employee Well-being
- Community Investment
Environmental Achievements
- Distributed $154 thousand worth of hand sanitizers and other wellness products
Social Achievements
- Implemented workplace safety initiatives
- Distributed $154 thousand worth of hand sanitizers and other wellness products
Governance Achievements
- Established a comprehensive cybersecurity program
- Adopted a written code of ethics
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Concentrated sales and suppliers representing some risk
- Global operations exposed to currency fluctuations, political instability, and regulatory changes
- Complexity and rapid development of AI initiatives
- Perception as a 'cannabis company' hindering fundraising
- Inexperience in conducting pre-clinical and clinical trials
- Regulatory approval processes for IGC-AD1 and other product candidates
- Limited success in Alzheimer's disease drug development
- Potential for serious adverse events or undesirable side effects
- Uncertainty regarding market acceptance of products
- Lack of visibility regarding future demand for products
- Business interruptions
- Climate change concerns
- Reliance on management team
- Variability of quarterly revenue and profitability
- Potential risks associated with the disposal of non-core assets
- Risk of write-downs on inventory and other assets
- Potential for unintentional accounting errors
- Complex and changing laws and regulations related to climate change and ESG initiatives
- Concentrated insider ownership of common stock
Mitigation Strategies
- Established an internal CRO with proprietary software to optimize trial costs
- Implementing tighter cybersecurity measures
- Actively managing the disposal process of non-core assets to mitigate risks and maximize shareholder value
- Regularly reviews long-lived assets for impairment
- Strive to improve ESG performance and meet voluntary goals
- Implementing a comprehensive cybersecurity program
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Physical Risks
- Extreme weather events that could damage facilities and equipment, injure employees, disrupt operations, and negatively affect the ability to service clients
Transition Risks
- Disorderly global transition away from fossil fuels, customer preference for low-carbon products, stakeholder pressure to decarbonize, and new legal or regulatory requirements