At COP 30, the BCSE coalition is committed to work with governments, businesses, and stakeholders to:

Deliver Solutions

• Foster dialogues about best practices for accelerated deployment of energy efficiency and clean energy solutions, including opportunities and obstacles.
• Bring forward BCSE members’ implementation experience and expertise to the COP 30 Granary of Solutions.
• Champion the need for policy and market certainty to attract investment and foster collaboration.

Unlock Ambition

• Encourage countries to close the finance gap by demonstrating business support for continued and increased climate ambition.
• Identify ways to optimize public and private international finance flows, especially towards those most vulnerable to climate impacts. 

Accelerate Deployment

• Continue to build momentum and highlight how countries can work with the private sector to:
  • double the global rate of energy efficiency improvements by 2030
  • triple renewable energy capacity globally by 2030
  • increase global energy storage to 1.5 terawatt hours by 2030
  • accelerate methane emissions reductions
  • reduce road transport emissions
  • build net-zero emissions systems by mid-century
  • increase the production and use of sustainable fuels by 2035

Learn more in BCSE’s COP 30 position paper.

Established in 1992 in advance of the first Earth Summit or United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), BCSE has been an accredited business observer to the United Nations for more than 30 years.

BCSE has led a delegation to each of the three UNCED Summits (1992, 2002, 2012) and has had a presence at nearly all the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) annual Conference of the Parties (COP) sessions and most inter-sessional meetings.

BCSE attends the COP with these guiding objectives to:

• Ensure a broad portfolio of decarbonizing energy efficiency and clean energy solutions are utilized to close the global emissions gap and to meet national mitigation and adaptation goals.
• Share implementation experiences, challenges, and opportunities – from community engagement to technology deployment – with governments and stakeholders.
• Discuss the important role of policy certainty, market-based mechanisms, finance, capacity building, technology transfer, monitoring, reporting and verification, and partnership with the private sector to foster greater climate action.

Businesses in the BCSE delegation are deploying the energy efficiency and clean energy solutions needed to reduce energy demand, accelerate the energy transition, and keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C. Business voices are needed at COP to provide insight from the real economy on what policies best catalyze investment and deployment.

The day for BCSE begins with preparation and review of the latest news out of COP and the UNFCCC Daily Program, as well as a check-in at the daily business and industry NGO (BINGO) briefing hosted by the International Chamber of Commerce to get oriented for the day.

Throughout the two weeks of COP, BCSE’s delegation works to support the international negotiations by advocating for ambitious global commitments to advance the clean energy transition, and demonstrating to countries and civil society the solutions the private sector can provide. Members of BCSE’s delegation provide energy efficiency, clean energy, and decarbonization technologies and services that help countries and communities reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, increase resilience, and meet their climate action goals. Learn more about BCSE’s advocacy objectives at COP 30 here.

Although day-by-day schedules vary, BCSE’s delegation engages in this advocacy at COP by:

• Meeting with national and sub-national governments to share the importance of using policy tools to broaden the market for clean energy. Demonstrate how the private sector can help the public sector achieve its climate mitigation and adaptation goals.
• Meeting with U.S. and international civil society stakeholders to listen and learn and to identify ways to work together to accelerate the energy transition.
• Convening global clean energy advocates to discuss strategies for advancing the clean energy transition.
• Connecting our members to share their business views at side events, exhibits, press conferences, and other events held in the blue zone.
• Attending conferences held outside of the blue zone to network and share our views.

The energy transition is an economic opportunity to shift how we generate and consume energy from high-emission to low- and zero-emission resources. The energy efficiency and clean energy technology solutions needed to do so are available today.

BCSE advocates for the deployment of a broad portfolio of solutions that can be adjusted for regional or local circumstances. We are in a critical stage of implementation – of aligning market and policy signals to deploy and build a positive feedback loop that ensures both political and public support for greater investment and growth.

The tricky part is that the transition takes time. The good news is that the pace is picking up, even though some may feel it is not fast enough. The reality is that all energy sources need to adapt and evolve if we are to meet our shared decarbonization goals. Communities that are impacted need to be involved in the planning and implementation of the transition. The private sector cannot go it alone.

BCSE works through its advocacy to share the realities of the various layers of the energy transition that need alignment. BCSE’s annual and free publication produced with BloombergNEF, the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook, chronicles the pace of the transition in the United States over the past decades.

Throughout 2025, countries are updating their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, which include economy-wide emissions reduction targets for 2035. To date, only 62 of nearly 200 countries – representing 31% of global emissions – have submitted updated NDCs.As targets are announced, a clear gap between countries’ current levels of ambition and the reductions needed to stay on a 1.5°C trajectory is more notable.

According to ClimateWatch, the NDCs submitted so far would only reduce global emissions by roughly 1.4 GtCO₂e by 2035, relative to earlier pledges. Additional emissions reductions of between 26.5–29.8 GtCO₂e by 2035 would be necessary to limit warming to 1.5°C.

As the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP 30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Brazil convenes this November, it is hoped that remaining countries will submit their updated NDCs. The level of collective ambition will likely be discussed throughout the two-week conference.

BCSE will be leading a delegation of U.S. businesses and organizations to COP 30 to showcase scalable, commercially available technology solutions that can help countries meet their climate targets and also scale greater ambition.

BCSE understands the central role that international finance flows – both public and private – play to advance international cooperation on climate and to deliver emissions reductions on the scale that science demands. The Baku to Belém Roadmap calls for significant private sector finance to help achieve its goal of mobilizing at least $1.3 trillion annually by 2035 for climate action in developing countries.

At home in Washington, DC, BCSE is a consistent advocate for the annual appropriations in the U.S. federal budget for international climate and clean energy programs.

BCSE greatly values the long-standing and important leadership role that the United States plays in the global community to support developing countries as they build public and private infrastructure that incorporates American values and generates American opportunities. These investments help to create an enabling legal, financial, and regulatory environment that is needed for U.S. companies to effectively enter and prosper in developing countries. This public finance strengthens U.S. credibility overseas and generates increased market demand for high quality American energy efficiency and clean energy solutions.