Reuters: A Japanese government agency has bought almost 10 million tonnes of carbon emissions offsets from the Japanese arm of French chemical company Rhodia in the past two years in an effort to help the country meet its targets under the Kyoto Protocol, the deals’ facilitators said on Friday. The offset credits, called CERs, were bought in fiscal 2006 and 2007 by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in tenders won by orbeo, a joint venture between …