Carbon payments help protect threatened tropical mammals

CIFOR Director General Frances Seymour said REDD offered important win-win opportunities for climate and biodiversity protection. 'Ultimately, our goal is to help fashion an agreement in Copenhagen that will allow tropical forests to become a part of a more comprehensive climate agreement – one that will reduce emissions as well as produce co-benefits,' M[s] Seymour said. 'There is already a good case to be made for ending the exclusion of existing forests in the next climate pact. This new evidence shows just one of the many benefits that a REDD accord could have.'