In December 2009, the European Council reiterated the conditional offer of the EU to move to a 30 % reduction by 2020 con respective capabilities.
comparable emission reductions and that developing countries contribute adequately according to their responsibilities and r
to 1990 levels as part of a global and comprehensive agreement for the period beyond 2012, provided that other developed countries commit themselves to
Under the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2013-2020) the EU has a collective target to reduce its emissions by 20% relative to base year (1990) levels over the period. The burden sharing agreement, set out for the Doha Amendment, translates efforts agreed under the
EU 2020 Climate and Energy Package into the second commitment period of the KP. The Doha Amendment of the Kyoto Protocol has not entered into force and Assigned Amount Units (AAUS) not distributed, however the expected AAUS for the UK have been calculated as indicated in
this report. The calculation of the UK's Assigned Amount is set out in UK's Initial Report for the second commitment period, and results in an Assigned Amount of 2,744,937,332 assigned amount units (AAUS) over the commitment period, where one AAU is equivalent to one tCO;eq.