Table 1 gives an idea of the magnitude of potential gains to tropical countries such as Brazil.
The average sale price of forested land in Brazilian Amazonia represents the net present value that could be obtained
from current land uses in the region, namely selling the timber and deforesting land for cattle
pasture. At the US$ 5±35 per metric ton of carbon
use change to be counted in the 1990 baseline for
countries that, like most tropical forest countries,
had net emissions from land-use change in 1990