In 2010, the EU submitted a pledge to reduce its GHG emissions by 2020 by 20% compared to 1990 levels in order to contribute to achieving the ultimate objective of the UNFCCC: to stabilise GHG concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic (humaninduced) interference with the climate system, or, in other words, to limit the global temperature increase to less than 2C compared to temperature levels before industrialization (FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1). The EU had also committed to raising this target to a 30% emission reduction by 2020 compared with 1990 levels, provided that other developed countries also commit to achieving comparable emission reductions, and that developing countries contribute adequately, according to their responsibilities and respective capabilities. This offer was reiterated in the submission to the UNFCCC by the EU-28 and Iceland on 30 April 2014.