The UN backed carbon credit price is falling to lows not previously seen: this is excellent news.

FORBES: Carbon Credit Price Falling: Excellent News

In the developing world it can earn UN-backed carbon credits, which can be sold to governments or firms that must reduce their emissions under the Kyoto protocol.

ECONOMIST: The waste business smells of money

Meanwhile, those considering CCS plants in poor countries cannot earn UN-backed carbon credits, since the Kyoto protocol, the UN's treaty on climate change, makes no provision for the technology.

ECONOMIST: Carbon capture and storage

During the debate, Stewart Stevenson told MSPs the Scottish government's targets were ambitious to an extraordinary degree and the original targets on carbon emissions had been backed by Stop Climate Chaos Scotland.

BBC: Carbon emissions targets debate

Meanwhile, Governor Romney once supported a cap-and-trade mechanism to control carbon emissions but as the 2008 presidential race neared, he backed off and favored modest penalties for coal-fired power plants.

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Not everyone is convinced that wind-power is the most reliant route to clean, renewable carbon-free energy, and it is concerning that Britain is relying on a power source that must be backed up by more constant technologies such as nuclear, coal, or gas, because the wind blows inconsistently, as is its nature.

FORBES: Wind Power Efforts May Not Be Enough For U.K.