given that this treaty which commands almost universal support lays out only very general climate change mitigation and adaptation duties for states it was only natural that states negotiated a protocol kyoto protocol to lay down binding emission reduction targets for the industrialised states in entry into force in the first commitment period within which industrialised states were expected to cut their greenhouse gas emissions ran from to the december climate regime meeting in doha was able to agree on a second commitment period for some industrialised states led by the european union and australia but many others dropped out