In 1997 the Kyoto Protocol was adopted, which set legally binding greenhouse gas emission limit values for the period 2008-2012. Cyprus has ratified the Kyoto Protocol as a state without obligations to reduce or limit emissions. In 2012, at the Climate Change Summit held in Doha, Qatar, the second binding period of the Protocol (2013-2020) was agreed. As part of the EU's commitments (20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared to 1990), the Republic of Cyprus also assumed the national targets for a 21% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 relative to 2020 with 2005 from electricity, cement and ceramics, and 5% in other sectors such as agriculture, transport, waste, etc., compared to 2005 levels.