Batteries are at the heart of today’s clean energy transition. They are driving the shift to electric transport, strengthening power grids, and expanding access to clean energy worldwide. To truly deliver on their promise of reducing risks and ensuring long-term economic and environmental viability, battery supply chains must be resilient, transparent, and sustainable.
The Global Battery Alliance (GBA) convenes actors across the value chain to align on sustainability performance expectations for batteries around principles of transparency, traceability, accountability and circularity. As the only multistakeholder platform bringing together the entire battery value chain, we are setting the global benchmark for sustainability and transparency in battery production and use.
Global Battery Alliance members collaborate on key initiatives related to ensuring a sustainable and responsible battery value chain. GBA members opt-in to different initiatives - based on interest or nexus with their operations along the value chain - and provide in-kind expertise to steer and implement the agreed outcomes.
The GBA Battery Passport is an emerging global sustainability reporting and certification scheme for batteries, underpinned by indicators that allow data on facility-level sustainability performance in the battery supply chain to be gathered, verified, scored, aggregated and compared. It is built on innovative Digital Product Passport protocols and technologies, to enable trusted and harmonized supply chain data to be harnessed effectively.
The GBA is working with its members across the value chain on ensuring that critical materials are produced, sourced, processed, transported, manufactured and recycled in a responsible and sustainable manner which minimizes environmental harm, respects human rights and creates benefits for stakeholders along the supply chain.