Cameroon, a country with medium forest area and medium deforestation rates (-5,18%), would need to assess the carbon stock at time 2 with an error smaller than 4% when the deforestation and degradation rate is reduced by 75%.
But even before that Brazil's deforestation rate had slumped.
Brazil's deforestation rate has dropped astoundingly fast.
Thus the country's overall deforestation rate also slumped.
The FAO now reckons the annual deforestation rate has fallen by about 10%.
Towards the bottom of the curve, Mexico has cut its deforestation rate even more than Brazil.
The Norwegian-funded scheme assumes a fictitiously high baseline deforestation rate, so Guyana would not actually have to reduce deforestation at all in order to be paid".
Many of the problems that beset other forests in Mexico, like illegal logging and deforestation, rate barely a shrug here.
Although the deforestation rate in Brazil has slowed since 2005, it never stopped entirely and may be rising again.
The deforestation rate is estimated to be 0.2% each year.
Monthly data from several scientific institutions had suggested the deforestation rate might be on the rise.
