The Aspen Institute and Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice hosted a three-day forum in Huntsville, Alabama in October 2023 to discuss what meaningful community engagement looks like in decarbonization, net zero, and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies in the United States. The forum provided space for environmental justice leaders and community groups to engage with policymakers and scientists to share how the deployment of clean energy projects is affecting their communities and to begin the process of collaborating on a new standard of community engagement. This report summarizes the key topics and takeaways of the discussion.