As an architect of the Biden administration’s work on climate-smart agriculture, Robert Bonnie could be forgiven for stewing over the looming loss of that agenda with the incoming Trump administration.
But that’s not necessarily how he sees the future, Bonnie told POLITICO’s E&E News in an interview.
“We’ve seen a huge sea change,” Bonnie said, crediting both the Agriculture Department’s efforts and commitments by agribusiness and farm organizations to make carbon reductions a priority in agriculture and forestry.
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“I think that approach sticks around,” said Bonnie, who’s finishing the administration as undersecretary for farm production and conservation and served in other key roles in both the Biden and Obama administrations.
