The battery value chain is currently linked at its most fundamental levels to issues such as child labour, water and air pollution, dangerous working conditions, and challenges concerning life-cycle sustainability. Some promising actions to address these issues are already underway...A global movement toward an inclusive, innovative and sustainable battery value chain via the proposed alliance will go hand-in-hand with specific in-country and cross-country action, catalysed by the alliance. Therefore, the Battery Alliance will:  Ensure the value chain’s social and environmental sustainability in line with the 2030 agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals, Unlock innovation across the battery value chain, a complex system spanning the globe and covering multiple industries, Support the development of policy principles across the G20 to harness the battery value chain for global economic convergence and catch-up...