The world remains wildly off track of its goal to halt forest loss by the end of the decade despite making some progress toward curbing deforestation last year, a new analysis finds.

The Forest Declaration Assessment , published on Monday, provides a comprehensive glimpse at global forest health one year after more than 140 countries representing 90% of the worlds forests committed to ending deforestation by 2030.

In order to meet the 2030 zero deforestation target, we would need to see a 10% reduction in global deforestation every year from 2021 to 2030, Erin Matson, a senior consultant at Climate Focus, one of the organizations that conducts the annual report, told reporters during a press call. In 2021, deforestation reduced by 6.3% a good start, but not on track with a 10% trajectory.

The picture is not yet rosy, she added.

The deforestation pact at last years United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, was widely celebrated, despite plenty of reasons to be skeptical that it would lead to meaningful change. In 2014, dozens of nations signed on to the New York Declaration on Forests, setting a goal of cutting deforestation in half by 2020 and ending it altogether by 2030. That pledge did little to slow forest destruction.

One year after COP26 in Scotland, the world is already digging itself into another hole. Globally, 6.8 million hectares of forest an area roughly the size of Ireland were lost in 2021, according to the report. In the tropics, intact primary forests decreased 3.1%.

We are quickly moving toward another round of hollow commitments and vanished forests, David Gibbs, a research associate at the World Resources Institutes Global Forest Watch, said in a statement accompanying the release of the Forest Declaration Assessment.