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TOKYO—Japan is reconsidering plans to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 25% by 2020 due to a rethinking of its energy future, and the country is worried that it is spending too much on carbon-credit programs, a senior government official said on Wednesday.

Japan Reconsiders Plan to Cut Carbon Emissions Mari Iwata 2011

Biofuels, large-scale infrastructure projects, carbon-credit mechanisms, and speculation lead to rapid changes in land rights, creating new threats for vulnerable land users," he said."

UN expert calls for guidelines to protect vulnerable people against 'land grabs' 2011

"We suspect that the persons behind those attacks are linked to some of those who earlier have used the trading system for carbon-credit fraud, although the modus operandi seems more sophisticated now," said Rob Wainwright, Europol's director.

European Emissions Markets to Reopen Gradually John W. Miller 2011

World-Wide *** Japan is considering revising plans to cut carbon-dioxide emissions 25% by 2020 due to a rethinking of its energy future and worries it is spending too much on carbon-credit programs.

What's News— 2011

Borman now spends much of his time in Quito or abroad, working on a carbon-credit plan that would call on wealthy countries, investors and foundations to pay the Cofan to protect the wilderness and, thus, help offset carbon dioxide emissions.

'Gringo chief' Randy Borman helps Ecuador's Cofan Indians survive, thrive 2010

Its planning was initiated thanks to a $345,000 grant from the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation to Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management to study and test the viability of a future carbon-credit market.

The Chicago Climate Club Gets Capped Larry Bell 2010

Though not so for the carbon-credit market itself, since that appears to move completely independently of the climate.

Is This A Bear Or Bull Climate? | Impact Lab 2009

To encourage companies to start preparing for the regulations, environmentally aggressive California was setting up a market to promote a voluntary carbon-credit trade.

A New Fight Over Pollution Curbs Takes Root 2009

"'Climate Change' is their new theology - a secular-religious hysteria complete with Pope Al Gore, carbon-credit indulgences and the persecution of heretics."

OpEdNews - Diary: (VIDEOS) Climate-Gate: How Low Will They Stoop? 2009

In Changshu, for instance, local plants have recently launched recycling projects and a carbon-credit scheme.

Where Poor Is A Poor Excuse 2008