Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore North Carolina's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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GHG Targets + Governance

Just Transition + Equity

Industry

Pricing Carbon + Valuing Damages

Electricity

Transportation

Resilience

Natural + Working Lands

Climate Finance

Buildings

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Careers Electric Training Launch

The Siemens Foundation launched Careers Electric, a national initiative, in North Carolina to expand access to high-quality electrical training and create clear pathways into well-paying, in-demand electrical careers. The initiative will train 25,000 North Carolinians for jobs in the energy and infrastructure sectors within the first 10 years. 

Executive Order 292, Advancing Environmental Justice for North Carolina

Builds upon Governor Cooper’s Executive Order 246, issued in January of 2022 by reestablishing the Secretary of Environmental Quality’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board as the Governor’s Environmental Justice Advisory Council.

Executive Order 292 directs the creation of the Environmental Justice (E.J.) Hub and Mapping Tool. The E.J. Hub is a government-wide environmental web page that hosts environmental justice information and activities, including the Mapping Tool and relevant grant information across the Administration. The mapping tool integrates data from the Departments of Health and Human Services, Environmental Quality, and Transportation. The mapping tool displays data related to climate stressors (flooding and sea level rise risk), demographics, and the environment (i.e., air quality permit sites, permitted facilities locations.) Geographic (AIANA), Health data, DOT (TDI), and Sensitive receptors (prisons, state-owned lands, broadband, schools, nursing homes, and affordable housing communities).

N.C. Environmental Justice Hub and Mapping Tool

N.C. Environmental Justice Hub

Executive order 292 reestablished the Secretary of Environmental Quality's Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board as the Governor's Environmental Justice Advisory Council. The Council serves as a forum for whole-of-government environmental justice concerns and is tasked with providing guidance and recommendations to the Governor and State agencies to advance environmental justice. The Council consist of a mixture of community members and state agency employees.

Governor's Environmental Justice Advisory Council

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Resolution for the Board of Transportation in Support of Implementation for the North Carolina Department of Transportation Complete Streets Policy

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
That the North Carolina Board of Transportation hereby adopts the 2019 amendments
to the Complete Streets Policy.

This policy requires NCDOT planners and designers consider and incorporate multimodal facilities in the design and
improvement of all appropriate transportation projects in North Carolina. Routine maintenance projects may be excluded
from this requirement if an appropriate source of funding is not available. Consideration of multimodal elements will begin
at the inception of the transportation planning process and the decisions made will be documented. 

The Department recognizes the types of roadway users and the way they interact with the transportation network is
evolving as transportation technologies such as ride share, connected and autonomous vehicles, and electric vehicles
become more prevalent. The Department will consider these evolving technologies and users in its planning and design
guidelines.

This policy sets forth the protocol for the development of transportation networks that encourage non-vehicular travel
without compromising the safety, efficiency, or function of the facility. The purpose of this policy is to guide existing
decision making and design processes to ensure that all users are included during the planning, design, construction,
funding, operation and maintenance of North Carolina’s transportation network, and will not create barriers or hazards to
the movements of those users.

NCDOT Policy A.09.0106 - Complete Streets

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Strategies to Advance North Carolina’s Workforce Development Progress

The Governor’s Council on Workforce and Apprenticeships released its end-of-year report highlighting goals and strategies to strengthen North Carolina’s workforce and expand access to good jobs, including a goal of doubling apprenticeships across the state.