European Council letter to UNFCCC on Copenhagen

The European Council has written a letter to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) expressing its willingness to be associated with the Copenhagen Accord and the submission of the quantified economy-wide emissions reduction targets for 2020. The letter states that, as part of a global and comprehensive agreement for the period beyond 2012, the EU reiterates its conditional offer to move to a 30% reduction by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, provided that other developed countries commit themselves to comparable emission reductions.
The ACEIⁱ (Alliance for a Competitive European Industry), which CEMBUREAU is a member of, recently published an open letter calling on the EU to stick to the 20% emission reduction target (see January 2010 Eurobrief). The letter stated that no further unilateral commitments should be made until it is certain that other major economies have also made substantial and binding commitments.

The letter can be found here:
http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/10/st05/st05794.en10.pdf