The Business Council for Sustainable Energy

We recognize our collective responsibility as partners with the broader energy efficiency ecosystem to support the delivery of global progress to double the rate of energy efficiency improvement annually by 2030. We commit as a collective of government, company and organizational partners of Mission Efficiency to support global progress on energy efficiency. propose joint projects, work together and invest in energy efficiency with other committed Mission Efficiency partners. As an organizational partner, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy urges national and sub- national governments to commit to energy efficiency by having an active energy efficiency action plan, by including high ambition for energy efficiency in the Nationally Determined Contributions and/or having UN Energy Compact with energy efficiency commitments. 

Further, we request governments to develop and implement as many actions as possible from the Mission Efficiency Energy Efficiency Playbook of Key Actions.

We commit to support governments and other partners to achieve their goals by:

• Submitting a revised Nationally Determined Contribution with comprehensive energy efficiency actions and goals
• Developing plans and policies that strengthen system efficiency (e.g., sector integration, circular economy, etc.)
• Developing and implementing an Energy Service Company (ESCO) or Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) framework that allows third party investment in and ownership of energy efficiency assets

We commit to further progress on energy efficiency by:

• Educating policy makers in the U.S. and under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the market, technology and policy issues related to accelerating the scale up of energy efficiency, consistent with at least a doubling of the rate of energy efficiency improvements by 2030.

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The Business Council for Sustainable Energy, Washington DC, USA