Automotive & Transportation
Global Battery Alliance
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In 2017, BASF co-founded the Global Battery Alliance (GBA) - a multi-stakeholder alliance that includes, major international companies from the automotive, technology, chemical and mining industries, as well as representatives of governments, academia, and civil society (NGOs). The GBA is working on a socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable and responsible circular battery economy. In the first phase, two critical parameters are in the focus: the social aspect of child-labor and the environmental aspect of greenhouse gas emissions.
Along the virgin material value chain, conscious and responsible action by the actors must solve ESG (environmental, social, governance) issues while building up a material pool, especially for new projects. In the long term, a stable state can only be achieved through a circular economy. Recycling at all stages will keep the pool of materials full and only losses need to be replaced.
As a flagship initiative, the Alliance is developing rulebooks for a “battery passport”, based on the digitalization of data. It is a digital twin of a battery that is supposed to provide data for a standardized sustainability assessment, which would ultimately be condensed into a "quality seal". This key instrument provides transparency to control success towards the strategic objective and to steer activities. It will show the performance of the battery regarding several sustainability criteria.
The Global Battery Alliance is a frontrunner on how to set credible rules for sustainable value chains under the Battery Passport program. The multilateral agreement about the greenhouse gas rulebook provides the necessary consensus to transparency. With this knowledge various industry players in the battery value chain have now the tool in hand to decisively drive down the environmental impact of their processes – and this on a global level.
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Further information
- Launch of Human Rights and Child Labour Indices for Battery PassportDecember 08, 2022
- Global Battery Alliance announces new Board of DirectorsNovember 17, 2022