In the United Nations' resolution "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" published in 2015, 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) were outlined. In the same year, the Paris agreement states that the rise in the global mean temperature should be kept preferably within 1.5 • C. To achieve these goals in a cost-effective way and to address societal challenges across the globe, electrochemsitry and electrochemical energy materials play a pivotal role. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry given to lithium-ion batteries was a highlight of this ongoing endeavor.