As a non-Annex I party, the country has no commitments to reduce GHG emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Since 2005, the most important developments in the Republic of Moldova regarding climate change are the preparation of the Second National Communication, the negotiations since 2010 of an Association Agreement with the EU that contains a chapter on climate change and the country’s ratification of the Energy Community Treaty4 in 2010. This general trend conceals the fact that total GHG emissions started increasing in 2000. Recent data up to 2010 contained in the country’s draft 2013 national inventory report show that total GHG emissions grew by more than 20 per cent in the decade 2000- 2010.