Heavyweight unity: The group is being co-chaired by the American Farm Bureau Federation, Environmental Defense Fund, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives and National Farmers Union — a foursome that disagree on plenty of policy issues. Other groups involved: The Nature Conservancy, The Food Industry Association (FMI) and National Alliance of Forest Owners.

And a new taskforce: The Bipartisan Policy Center is also announcing a new Farm and Forest Carbon Solutions Task Force on Tuesday. That effort is being co-chaired by Heitkamp and Georgia Republican Saxby Chambliss, who formerly served as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee.

What it means: The moves are just the latest sign that there’s momentum building to get agriculture (and forestry!) much more engaged in climate solutions. In the past few years, the ag sector has been getting a lot more comfortable with talking about climate change, as POLITICO reported in an award-winning deep dive last year.

Biden zeroes in: The president-elect is signaling he’s serious about embedding climate action across the federal government, including USDA.

Reading the carbon-tea leaves: A team of former White House and government officials have drawn up a 300-page blueprint for how to leverage the government to fight climate change. The so-called Climate 21 Project argues USDA has “enormous capacity to contribute meaningfully” to the administration’s climate ambitions.

The first 100 days? The blueprint calls on the administration to establish a carbon bank using the Commodity Credit Corporation in its first 100 days as a way to financially incentivize carbon sequestration on farm and forest lands. It also recommends financing climate smart practices through existing conservation programs and making big changes so that crop insurance policies and rates incentivize climate-friendly practices.

Policy forecast reading: The Climate 21 Project’s transition memo on agriculture (find it here) is all the buzz right now. The document was co-authored by Robert Bonnie, who served as the undersecretary for natural resources and the environment in the Obama administration and is currently serving as lead of the Biden transition team for USDA. Meryl Harrell, formerly a senior adviser to the undersecretary and currently on the transition team also co-authored the memo.