This report intends to address the role that extensive farming can play in the context of climate change, both in connection with improving the assessment of its emissions and their derived effects, as well as contributing to its adaptation, and above all, harnessing all its potential to fight climate change. This report is conceived as a technical guide to raise awareness on the main arguments that connect extensive farming to climate change, while providing access to abundant sources and reports. To this end, highlighted boxes appear interspersed in the text, referring to relevant technical or scientific publications related to the aspects addressed in each section.