Volkswagen supports the Global Battery Alliance
The Global Battery Alliance is a worldwide platform launched on the initiative of the World Economic Forum in 2017. It brings together public and private stakeholders to make the battery supply chain sustainable from a social, environmental and economic perspective.
The main objectives of the Global Battery Alliance:
- The social and environmentally friendly mining of raw materials
- The transformation towards a circular economy through reuse and recycling
- The promotion of innovations along the supply chain
Important partners in the Global Battery Alliance besides Volkswagen include BASF, Google, the African Development Bank, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), as well as the Climate Works Foundation. Further information can be found at www.weforum.org/global-battery-alliance