Transforming REDD+ and achieving the SDGs through support for adaptation-mitigation synergy

Current ambition across INDCs will not achieve globally appropriate mitigation
action. Current REDD+ finance is inadequate for supporting the instrument as
originally envisaged. Adaptation is even more urgent than so far accepted, but
closely related to broader development goals. We reflected on a decade of
REDD+ debate in this context.
We propose climate-smart landscape approaches that simultaneously
embrace mitigation and adaptation policies and programs, as well as other
environmental services, through addressing problematic issues that hinder
REDD+ from taking off and flying. We argue that such landscape approaches
can be strong alternatives to REDD+ as currently perceived through the
clarification of scope and scale of problems such that means for intervention
can be identified within legitimate platforms that ensure sustainability through
feedback mechanisms and continued learning.