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Alliance shares recommendations to guide lawmakers drafting climate legislation
The Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance, co-chaired by American Farm Bureau, has shared 40 recommendations for lawmakers to consider as they draft climate change legislation.
Andrew Walmsley, the director of congressional relations with AFBF, says the overarching goals of the climate recommendations are to…”support voluntary market and incentive-based policies, we have to be based in science and we’re promoting the resilience of not only farmers, but the rural economies,” he says. “Finally, the overarching goal was to do no harm to farmers and ranchers and do no harm to our rural communities.”
Other recommendations include supporting the development of and overseeing private sector markets for carbon credits and increasing federal investment in agriculture, forestry, and food-related research “substantially and continuously.”
Walmsley says the policy recommendations have six areas of focus: soil health, livestock and dairy, forests and wood products, energy, food loss and waste, and research.
Other alliance members include National Farmers Union, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, and more.
