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Japan began to implement a carbon tax in 2012. The carbon tax is an additional tax over and above the existing Oil and Coal Tax, which covers oil, natural gas and coal (electricity excluded).

Under the J-Credit Scheme, Japanese enterprises, local governments, agricultural workers, or forest owners can reduce carbon emissions by introducing energy-saving equipment.

South Korea has developed a carbon labeling scheme for intermediate products and services and a low-carbon product certification scheme, both of which are non-mandatory and voluntarily participated by enterprises.

The Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (TGO) introduced the carbon labeling scheme in August 2008.

The United Kingdom is the first country in the world to introduce the carbon footprint labelling scheme for products. In March 2007, the Carbon Trust launched the world's first batch of products labeled with carbon labels.

The Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (TGO), Thailand Business Council for Sustainable Development (TBCSD) and Thailand Environment Institute (TEI) jointly launched the carbon reduction label.

New Frontier Markets (NFM), a technology company devoted to providing access to the new low-carbon economy, announced on July 12 its launch of a blockchain platform for voluntary carbon credits. The company expects that the platform to be broadly in use i

A Houston-based non-profit organization, BCarbon, issued their first international soil carbon credits that using farmland to remove carbon in the atmosphere in the UK.

Carbon dioxide emissions at the 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo were much lower than estimated as fewer personnel attended the event due to the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a new study.

CHIMEI has completed carbon credits transaction and offsetting on the Climate Impact X (CIX), a Singapore-based global carbon exchange and marketplace, in June, becoming the first Taiwanese enterprise which secured and traded carbon credits on the CIX.

Shanghai’s Pudong New District will create personal carbon accounts for local citizens, according to a new local green finance rule entering into force on 1 July. The move aims to explore the emission-cutting potential of personal consumption and package

At present, there are three types of carbon labels in the United States, all of which are launched by different companies, with no official carbon label system.