Author Bastos Lima, M.G., Braña-Varela, J., Gupta, A., Visseren-Hamakers, I, Huynh T.B. & Kleymann, H., Van Dexter, K. & b Belecky, M.

Year of publication 2014

REDD+, as agreed upon under the UNFCCC (disregarding the source of support, e.g. market, nonmarket, public, private, etc.), focuses on reducing carbon emissions while safeguarding other social and environmental values. Results are to be measured and expressed in tonnes of CO2-equivalent per year. However, REDD+ also represents a tremendous opportunity to explicitly seek additional benefits and ensure that emissions reductions are not isolated from other ecosystem services.Effective forest conservation may require broad thinking, such as on how to promote holistic approaches that reconcile forest conservation and land-based economic activities such as agriculture. A landscape approach could provide an appropriate scale to integrate carbon and noncarbon aspects of REDD+. A landscape can be understood as a contiguous area, intermediate in size between an “ecoregion” and a “site”, with a specific set of ecological, cultural and socio-economic characteristics distinct from its neighbors.