High-level Business Summit on Energy and Climate

December 8th and 9th, MEDEF Headquarters, Paris

• Joint statement 

Documents and PowerPoint Presentations from Major Economies Business Forum (BizMEF) official side-event Business Perspectives on Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC’s) at COP-21, December 10, 2015:

• Agenda
• Norine Kennedy, USCIB presentation on BizMEF INDC survey
• Tennet Reed, Australia Industry Group, presentation and perspective on Australian perspective of INDC
• Jean-Baptiste Baroni, MEDEF, presentation on EU INDC
• Hiro Tezuka, Keidaren, presentation and perspective on Japanese INDC
• John Carnegie, BusinessNZ, presentation on New Zealand INDC
• Steve Eule, US Chamber of Commerce, Institute for 21st Century Energy, presentation and perspective on USA INDC
• Henrique Schneider, The Swiss Federation of Small and Medium Enterprises, presentation and perspective on Switzerland INDC
• Brian Flannery, BizMEF, presentation on Business Perspectives on INDC Portfolio
• Presentation on Simulations of INDCS (national and portfolio), Professor Keigo Akimoto, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)

PowerPoint Presentations from November 17th U.S. Business Preparatory Meeting for COP-21:

• Tom Lawler’s (IETA) presentation on INDC’s
• Presentation by Norine Kennedy (USCIB) and Brian Flannery (RFF/BizMEF)

New Position Papers from the Major Economies Business Forum on Energy Security and Climate Change (BizMEF):

• Business in the UNFCCC—A Proposal for the Paris 2015 UNFCCC Outcome
• The Emerging Innovation Consensus
• Greenhouse Gas Markets in the Post-2020 Agreement
• Perspectives on Intended Nationally Determined Contributions
• Perspectives on COP-21, Paris

Engaging Business: USCIB’s International Climate Policy Update:

Volume 1, August Issue

Volume 2, October Issue

Volume 3, November Issue coming soon!

USCIB has signed on to several letters and policy recommendations regarding the UN climate agreement, including:

• USCIB Letter to Todd Stern on Business Engagement in the Paris Outcomes 
• USCIB Letter to John Kerry on the United States INDC (Country Pledge)

• USCIB 2014 UN Climate Summit Key Messages

• USCIB Letter to Todd Stern, U.S Special Envoy for Climate Change

• IPR-Related Demands in UN Climate Change Negotiations (Multi-association letter to U.S. cabinet officials)

• ICC Key Messages for COP20

• BizMEF – Perspectives on COP-20/CMP-10, Lima, Peru

• BizMEF – Lima Business Dialogue Agenda: Anchoring Business Engagement in the UNFCCC

• BizMEF – Business in the UNFCCC: A Proposal for the Paris 2015 Outcome

• BizMEF – Examining the Effectiveness of Carbon Pricing as an Approach to Emissions Mitigation
  
• BizMEF – Expectations to the Green Climate Fund
  
• BizMEF – Intended Nationally Determined Contributions: From Good Intentions to Implementation

• UNFCCC Dec 1 Subsidiary Body for Implementation Opening Plenary – Statement by Business and Industry NGOs (BINGO)

• UNFCCC Dec 2 Ad-Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Action Opening Plenary – Statement by Business and Industry NGOs (BINGO)

As the American affiliate of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), USCIB actively supports ICC’s presence at UN climate conferences. USCIB is also a founding member of the Major Economies Business Forum on Energy Security and Climate Change (BizMEF), which comprises national and regional business organizations representing millions of companies all over the world. BizMEF members have participated in and shared views and meetings of the UNFCCC since COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009.

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