Bloomberg: Prices for carbon-emission permits may remain near record lows until at least 2011 because of stalled demand from polluting industries and governments, the International Energy Agency’s chief economist said. Many countries have lost interest in forcing companies to pay to release greenhouse gases to stem climate change as coping with the recession and credit crunch take precedence, the IEA’s Fatih Birol said in an interview in Berlin. Ending the credit crisis and recession …