The Secondary Battery Product and Enterprise’s Carbon Footprint Under the Low Carbon Strategy

Abstract

In recent years, more and more secondary battery are used in industry and daily life, nevertheless, extensive use of secondary battery will bring some impact to the environment such as greenhouse effects, soil pollution and water pollution. Only seeing the integral situation of secondary battery in China and implementing the low carbon strategy by the secondary battery enterprises as soon as possible, can we improve the secondary battery’s environmental impact and better realize the sustainable development. In this paper, we research the carbon footprint of lithium ion secondary battery based on PAS2050 ‘Specification for the assessment of the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of goods and services’ and select a lithium ion battery project with the annual output of 30 million in company A, calculate carbon emissions of every phase, we conclude that main phase of carbon emissions is still production phase and the proportion is extremely large. In the same time, we also describe the production of the lithium ion battery of our country on a macro level and evaluate the enterprise's carbon footprint to improve the environment effectively. In the end, the paper analyzes the existing low carbon policies in our country and put forward some relevant countermeasures for energy conservation and emissions reduction.