The climate crisis presents significant risk for our livelihood and the economy. The Decarbonization Dialogue is a project led by Keystone Policy Center and Great Plains Institute that convened experts from different sectors to develop recommendations for near-term federal policies to drive economy-wide and equitable decarbonization.

The Decarbonization Dialogue was designed to provide a bipartisan, collaborative set of recommendations that could quickly inform debate around climate and decarbonization action. Dialogue participants were organized into three working groups focused on power, transportation, and agriculture. The recommendations were developed by stakeholders with diverse interests and reflect months of dialogue between and among sector-specific working groups. They were publicly launched in February 2021.

In April, the Carbon Bank Taskforce of the Decarbonization Dialogue submitted recommendations to the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it should create and administer a carbon bank Creating a carbon that could provide financial incentive for farmers, ranchers, and foresters to reduce atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping gases.

Learn more about the Decarbonization Dialogue by listening to this episode of the Keynotes podcast: