O data, where art thou? Revolutionizing data sharing to advance our sustainability goals through smart chemical innovation.

Antiquated and inefficient data-sharing practices represent one of the key obstacles to advancing sustainability goals through green chemistry. To this end, we need to robustly link data on chemical impacts with new chemical design strategies, which requires the development of next-generation data-sharing platforms to harmonize both data and efforts. These decentralized and interactive programs should be structured as live ecosystems for data generation and exchange, inviting conversations about the reliability and relevance of information used to make decisions regarding chemical performance and safety.