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Japan Announces Pilot Program for Carbon Trading, as Analysts Predict $1 Trillion US Emissions Market

Carbon World News.... Japan will initiate a pilot carbon credit trading program before the end of 2008.Japan’s Industry Minister Akira Amari says the country will experiment with a system to enable carbon credit trading between power companies at t... ...full story at China Confidential

from China Confidential on Sun, Feb 17 2008

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