Key messages

• Many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) retain a sectorial focus; however, emphasis is placed on the need for integration across goals and targets.
• Given that there are inherent synergies and trade-offs embedded throughout, applying sectorial approaches to achieving the SDGs will likely be ineffective.
• Integrated landscape approaches offer significant potential as an implementing framework for addressing interlinked and conflicting challenges.
• This brief identifies where the current set of goals would benefit from a landscape approach and to what degree, and presents key recommendations.