Global Battery Alliance

We need more cross-industry, multi-stakeholder cooperation and collective action to achieve circular and resilient #battery value chains. Sebastian Scharfenberger writes in Automotive World : « Automotive and battery companies have already realised that breaking the linear take-make-waste battery cycle and replacing it with a more sustainable, circular approach won’t happen in a vacuum. Instead, it’s going to take extensive information sharing and co-innovation across companies and industries. Automakers, cell manufacturers, battery producers, raw material suppliers, and recycling companies will need to connect their digital systems to share information, work from common digital environments, jointly develop standard practices and parameters to govern their collaborative efforts, and pursue multi-stakeholder business models. They’ll also need the means to share carbon footprint and other sustainability-related information. These types of collaborative, cross-industry frameworks—business networks, ecosystems, and consortia—are already emerging around electric vehicle batteries. Active initiatives include the Global Battery Alliance Battery Pass, and Catena-X. With collaboration catalysts like these in place, along with a new generation of digital tools and a collective will to end the battery bottleneck, we already have the makings of a more sustainable and decarbonised transportation future. Now it’s time for companies to individually and collectively take steps to make that future a reality « Learn more about the GBA’s #batterypassport here : https://lnkd.in/eGZzHEr3 https://lnkd.in/g8wEqSfy

'The green transition runs on #batteries' 🔋 🌍 ♻️ ⚡ Thanks to BBVA for highlighting the Global Battery Alliance's work in providing an impartial platform for global multi-stakeholder collaboration and collective action. Everyone has a role to play in scaling battery value chains that are transparent, resilient, sustainable and future proof and the investment community is a critical actor in setting the right incentives. 💲 💵 💶 https://lnkd.in/e6-ypTys

Our Head of Battery Passport, Graham Lee, spoke on Tuesday at a joint session run by UNECE: Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6) and ISO - International Organization for Standardization on the future of digital product passports. We were thrilled at the opportunity to speak about our work so far, our thinking and our plans for the future! 🚀 Some key topics that came up: 🎯 Harmonisation - of the patchwork of regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations for sustainability reporting and performance benchmarking. ✅ The GBA #batterypassport is defining globally applicable harmonized performance expectations for batteries building on the existing regulatory and standards landscape. 🎯Trustability. As Brett Hyland commented, "a link from a DPP to a worthless certificate sadly doesn't bring us any closer to trustworthiness." ✅ The Global Battery Alliance is actively developing Data Assurance guidelines to ensure appropriate interaction with existing standard assurance schemes and independent verification prior to issuance of a GBA product level certification. 🎯Scalability. Taking what's built already - like voluntary standards for mineral supply chains, and United Nations Transparency Protocol frameworks, and harnessing them. No need to reinvent the 🛞 ✅ The GBA is actively leveraging existing frameworks for technical data exchange, rather than developing additional guidance. To find out more visit www.globalbattery.org

We are happy to share an exciting opportunity on behalf of Global Battery Alliance member The Faraday Institution: the Transformational Challenge on Ultra Low Cost, Long Duration Energy Storage The organisation invites expressions of interest from individuals and small teams to work closely as research consultants in 2025 to formulate and develop novel methods and approaches and radical ideas in a co-creation and planning phase ahead of longer R&D projects in 2026. They’re looking for potential solutions that could be delivered by electrical, thermal, mechanical or chemical energy storage ⚡💡🌡️🦾🧪🔋. 📅 Find out more on an online briefing, 8th April, 2-3pm: https://lnkd.in/e3EWhpd2 #FaradayBatteryChallenge #EnergyStorage #NetZero https://lnkd.in/eqcgH4DK

Big congratulations to Global Battery Alliance members Umicore, Anglo American, Euro Manganese Inc. and UP Catalyst for being selected as Strategic Projects under the CRMA by the European Commission 👏 Onwards and upwards! ⛰️ 🔋 ♻️ https://lnkd.in/ddtsBcx7

This article from Ioannis Ioannou puts the current ESG backlash into helpful context and provides perspectives on how corporates may consider reframing sustainability to enhance resilience and future proof their businesses. Ioannou writes: "The material risks haven’t disappeared. Investors are still asking pointed questions about transition exposure and long-term viability. Consumers remain attentive, particularly in sectors like food, fashion, and mobility. And climate events—from floods to wildfires—are only accelerating. The pressures are still there. They’ve just become harder to talk about." "What’s needed is a deeper recalibration. A shift away from ESG as a branding exercise, and toward ESG as a form of strategic foresight. A way to anticipate disruptions, manage transition risk, and allocate resources for long-term resilience. That means tying sustainability more closely and convincingly to core business outcomes. To innovation, efficiency, talent, and market relevance. It also means being clearer about trade-offs. Not every initiative will yield immediate returns. Not every audience will be persuaded. But leadership under pressure is still leadership. Thriving in this environment requires a different kind of courage. The courage to speak when silence feels safer. The courage to commit when consensus falters. And the courage to act when the political tide turns against you." At the Global Battery Alliance we are privileged to be working with leading companies 'who built sustainability into operations, governance, and strategy—and are staying the course' 🔋 🌍 👏 https://lnkd.in/eGWdhFgN

🚗⚡ The future is electric! The International Energy Agency (IEA)'s Global Energy Review 2025 published today confirms that EV adoption is accelerating, with over 17 million electric cars sold in 2024—accounting for 1 in 5 new vehicles globally. 🔋 As EVs drive battery demand to new heights, large-scale energy storage will be crucial to stabilizing grids powered by record-breaking renewable energy growth. Renewable energy capacity additions hit a record 700 GW, with solar PV and wind making up 95% of growth. 🌱 Battery innovation isn't just about power—it’s about cutting emissions. EVs alone helped prevent 80 Mt of CO2 emissions last year! 🌍 By facilitating transparent and sustainable supply chains through instruments like the Global Battery Alliance's #batterypassport, and mainstreaming product carbon footprints, emissions can be cut even further The momentum is unstoppable. Let’s accelerate the transition to a cleaner, electrified future. #EVs #BatteryTech #EnergyStorage #NetZero 🚀 https://lnkd.in/dUXfzErp

Continuing on the topic of newsletters, the International Energy Agency (IEA)´s #energysnapshot provides a succinct summary of recent trends in the battery industry 💪🔋 ⬇️ worth subscribing!

Today the Global Battery Alliance's programme manager Kaisa Toroskainen joined a panel on 'Achieving an inclusive and sustainable battery industry' at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence's Giga Europe: EVs & Battery Manufacturing. Kaisa shared lessons learnt from the GBA's 2024 #batterypassport pilots as a key learning opportunity to test readiness for the EU Battery Regulation and beyond. The panel also provided an opportunity to discuss the potential for the GBA's global sustainability certification for batteries and the synergies with voluntary sustainability standards. Congratulations to Sarah Colbourn for the excellent moderation and to fellow panelists Jos Dings Cecilia Mattea and Erika Ingvald for sharing their insights and perspectives.

📢 A little shout-out to our friends at the Volta Foundation for the fantastic weekly newsletter 'This Week in Batteries' - a must read for any #battery aficionado and supporter of the Global Battery Alliance 🔋 https://lnkd.in/eWyRPnah