The GBA Battery Passport aims to create transparency at every stage of battery production, from mining and metal recycling to manufacturing. It captures impacts on people and planet in a standarized way within a digital record. Thereby, production impacts of batteries can be compared along each other. Important aspects, such as respect for the rights of indigenous groups in the extraction of critical raw materials are addressed.
With the passport, the GBA provides a framework that supports compliance with reporting requirements of the EU Battery Regulation 2023. The regulation sets sustainability and safety requirements for batteries and imposes due diligence and reporting obligations on companies importing batteries into EU. In two phases, some industry players have piloted the Battery Passport and tested data collection from 2023 and 2024 onwards. The Battery Passport is a practical example of how cross-stakeholder collaboration can support product development to be both legally compliant and practically applicable.
For parties interested in the technical process, the GBA has published the revised version 2.1 of the Greenhouse Gas Rulebook – Generic Rules, a guide to facilitate data calculation for the Battery Passport. The handbook Quantifying Progress – How the GBA’s Greenhouse Gas Rulebook Supports SBTi Goals explains how the Passport meets legal reporting requirements.
