Carbon Payments Help Protect Threatened Tropical Mammals | ScienceDaily

Based on prices now being paid for carbon dioxide (CO2), the (Conservation Letters) study ("Carbon Payments as a Safeguard for Threatened Tropical Mammals") compared the revenue that could be derived from protecting the forest and avoiding carbon emissions to the revenue that would be derived if the forest was converted to oil palm plantations.

Mr (Oscar) Venter said the study found that carbon payments, in the form of payments for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) could compete with oil palm at carbon prices of $10 to $33 per tonne of C02.

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