Global Battery Alliance Launches Greenhouse Gas

The Global Battery Alliance (GBA), a multi-stakeholder organization whose mission is to create a sustainable battery value chain by 2030, today unveiled its Greenhouse Gas Rulebook for measuring and monitoring the greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles.

The Rulebook is the first framework of its kind to make it easier to collect standardized, auditable, and comparable GHG data for batteries. It was created in collaboration with Sphera and a wide range of public-private stakeholders across global value chains.

Batteries are a significant near-term driver in the transition to net-zero since they offer a strong and eco-friendly energy storage solution. The battery value chain is however still mostly opaque and linked to problems like high CO2 emissions and environmental deterioration. The GHG Rulebook tackles this by offering a technique for producing and gathering value chain data in a uniform manner, bringing transparency to the carbon footprint of batteries throughout their existence. The Rulebook goes beyond these to establish globally harmonized rules for batteries, paving the way for more dependable, accessible, and consistent GHG data on batteries. It does so while incorporating many existing standards and guidelines, including advice from the EU and ISO.

For those working in the industry, the Rulebook lays out about 80 guidelines in an approachable fashion. The 41 GBA members, who collectively span the entire EV battery value chain and include representation from civil society and governmental bodies, such as Tesla, Renault, Eurasian Resources Group, BASF, Saft, Umicore, Natural Resources Canada, and Transport & Environment, contributed to its development to provide a comprehensive framework. Even if the GHG Rulebook’s first public version is already the outcome of cooperative, multi-stakeholder efforts, the GBA intends to keep in touch with outside stakeholders in order to incorporate their suggestions into the development of future versions. The goal of this strategy is to achieve the Rulebook’s widespread adoption.

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As Senior Director for Vehicles and Emobility at Transport & Environment and a GBA Board Director, Julia Poliscanova said: “Sustainably made batteries are crucial to weaning the globe off fossil fuels. Regulators and the general public, however, demand to know the sources of the materials, the processes used to make the batteries, and the amount of carbon emissions they have produced. The GHG Rulebook of the GBA is useful in this situation. We will be able to trust the claims made by international manufacturers since it will guarantee that data is acquired consistently.

“The Global Battery Alliance is a forerunner on how to develop reliable guidelines for sustainable value chains under the Battery Passport programme,” said Martin Brudermüller, Co-Chair of the Global Battery Alliance and CEO of BASF. The GHG Rulebook global agreement offers the required consensus for transparency. With this knowledge, a variety of industry participants in the battery value chain have the means at their disposal to significantly reduce the environmental effect of their processes globally.

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