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Land use is best approached at the state, provincial, and regional government scale. Cities miss most of the rural impacts associated with land use. Land use matters also tend to cross subnational jurisdictions, making regional solutions necessary. These recommendations can also provide a variety of benefits for preserving and promoting biodiversity.
Developed in partnership with the Under2 Coalition 
Promote policies that create, conserve, and expand high-carbon landscapes like natural grasslands, forests, peatlands, mangroves, and wetlands, and strengthen and enforce laws that combat deforestation.
The Department of Caquetá promotes the restoration of ecosystems in order to improve the capacity for resilience and increase carbon sequestration.
‐Álvaro Pacheco Álvarez, Governor, Departament of Caquetá, Colombia
Preserve and conserve forests, grasslands, and other open space by identifying important natural resources, using local ordinances and state laws to protect land, and acquiring critical open space that can sequester carbon.
Promote methane capture from livestock waste through financial incentives and improved biogas infrastructure, and by strengthening the market for biogas system products.
Reducing the methane emissions generated by small- and medium-sized swine farms has high benefits for sustainable development and allows us to accelerate progress toward the decarbonization of our agricultural sector.
‐Eduardo Batllori Sampedro, Minister of Urban Development and Environment, Yucatan, Mexico
Provide education, training, and incentives to enable farmers and ranchers to transition to new, more sustainable forms of agriculture and land management that help sequester carbon.
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