International Policy
The Council provides its views on the following international policy issues: finance, market mechanisms, private sector engagement, technology and trade. As a diverse business coalition, not all BCSE members endorse the coalition’s position or take their own position on these issue areas.
Private Sector Engagement
- BCSE Submission to Talanoa Dialogue: Actions for Ambition: Clean Energy Solutions Are Powering the Transformation (April 2, 2018)
- BCSE Letter to President Donald J. Trump on U.S. Engagement in Paris Agreement (April 2017)
- BCSE Letter to Secretary of State on U.S. Engagement in Paris Agreement (April 2017)
- Launching the Paris Agreement and a Global Clean Energy Transformation - COP 22 in Marrakech (November 2016)
- Unlocking Investment, Innovation and Clean Energy Deployment in Paris - COP 21 in Paris (December 2015)
Technology
- COP22 Business Intervention Supports Action Focused COP and Affirms Its Partnership on Technology and Cooperative Efforts (November 7, 2016)
- Business Affirms Engagement on Paris Agreement Implementation - Intervention at UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany (May 26, 2016)
- COP21 Business Intervention Calls for New Agreement to Accelerate Low-Carbon Technology Deployment, Inclusion of Market-Based Mechanism (December 1, 2015)
Trade
- BCSE Response to Question from USTR Public Hearing on June 18 regarding impacted raw materials and components [Docket No. USTR 2019-004-0001] (June 28, 2019)
- BCSE Testimony at USTR Public Hearing on Section 301 Proposed Action of 4th Tranche of Tariffs on China [Docket No. USTR 2019-0004-0001] (June 18, 2019)
- Joint Energy Industry Letter to Office of the United States Trade Representative on Section 301: China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation [Docket No. USTR 2019-0004-0001] (June 17, 2019)
- Joint Energy Association Request for Exclusion Process for the China Section 301 Tariff Product List [Docket ID: USTR-2018-0026] (December 12, 2018)
- Joint Energy Association Letter To Support Smart Thermostat Industry’s Exclusion Request USTR [Docket ID# USTR-2018-0025] (November 8, 2018)
- Joint Energy Association Letter to Office of the United States Trade Representative on Proposed Modification of Action to Sec. 301 China's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property and Innovation [Docket No. USTR-2018-0026] (September 6, 2018)
- Joint Energy Association Letter to Office of the United States Trade Representative on Sec. 301 China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation [Docket No. USTR-2018-0005] (July 23, 2018)
- Joint Energy Association Letter to Office of the United States Trade Representative on Sec. 301 China's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation [Docket No. USTR-2018-0005] (May 11, 2018)
- BCSE Letter to Office of the United States Trade Representative on North American Free Trade Agreement Re-Negotiations (August 15, 2017)