The Land Use Trade-Offs model v2 (LUTO2) is a world-leading spatial model that maps the best way to use and manage land in Australia to meet climate and biodiversity targets without compromising economic growth and food and water security.

LUTO2 is open source and has been developed through a collaboration between Deakin University and Climateworks Centre, with research contributions from CSIRO.

No other model has LUTO2’s combination of spatial granularity and sophisticated analytical capability to analyse the complex interactions between climate impacts and mitigation, biodiversity, water use, agricultural production and food systems.

LUTO2 equips policy-makers, target-setters and regional planners with insights to envision what a sustainable, resilient future looks like for Australia’s land and agriculture sector and what changes are required to achieve this future.

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Editor’s note: This fact sheet was updated in September 2024 for LUTO2. Download the version 1 factsheet