If jurisdictional approaches to REDD+ (JREDD+) are to benefit Indigenous Peoples and local communities, much more attention must be focused on governance issues rather than carbon accounting alone, according to a new Landscape Alliance brief. The collapse is driving demand for high-integrity carbon credits, with attention to their validity, governance, transparency and respect for the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. At the same time, donors and governments are moving towards jurisdictional REDD+ models seen as more credible and integrated than individual projects. However, by itself “it is not really a jurisdictional approach,” given that drivers of deforestation originate largely outside Indigenous lands, Larson noted. “The idea of getting lost in the technical details versus thinking about what the real potential of the jurisdictional approach is – that’s the key,” Larson said.