The World Economic Forum (WEF) is pushing for “battery passports” to be fitted to electric vehicles (EVs) to track the driver’s impact on “climate change.”
The WEF is promoting the “battery passport” as a plan to fight climate change by ensuring that the public meets the organization’s “green agenda” goals.
The group argues that EVs should be monitored to make sure the “car batteries’ footprint” complies with “clean green energy” use.
Klaus Schwab’s organization is promoting the efforts of an institution called the Global Battery Alliance (GBA).
The GBA has just published the WEF-endorsed Greenhouse Gas Rulebook.
A piece on the group’s site manages to work a type of digital ID into the whole story, as a component in monitoring the impact car batteries have on the environment, with the rulebook designed to calculate and track the “greenhouse gas” footprint linked to lithium-ion batteries, whether used in vehicles or elsewhere.
The post, penned by Co-Chair of the Global Battery Alliance Benedikt Sobotka and German chemicals giant BASF CEO and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors Martin Brudermuller, first speaks about this basically being the year of a huge global energy crisis, one they think will result in a move away from natural gas and oil.
And while growing electric car sales are viewed as a positive thing, the authors say there is not enough “transparency” when it comes to their effect on the environment.
The fact is mentioned that although electric cars are considered environment-friendly, the batteries are actually made from materials like lithium, copper, and iron – this, in the context of the mining industry not being the “cleanest” out there.
Regardless, the main point seems to be to obtain insights that can ultimately lead to establishing control over how people use their batteries, and as is so often the case with the WEF-backed initiatives, establishing rules and standards before legitimate international organizations or nation-states can make their own.
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