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 Generation

Transportation

Resilience

Natural + Working Lands

Climate Finance

Buildings

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2022 Motor Fleet ZEV Plan

This 2022 Motor Fleet ZEV report provides an update on the 2021 ZEV Plan actions to increase ZEVs in State Motor Fleet. The following report outlines actions that respond to the directives outlined in Executive Order 80. The plan will be adjusted over time to address changes in EV availability and infrastructure technologies, vehicle demand, and infrastructure needs.

NCDOT Vehicle Miles Traveled Reduction Study

This report summarizes the findings of the VMT (Vehicle Miles Traveled) Study completed by Stantec for the North Carolina Department of Transportation
(NCDOT). The goal of this study was to identify transportation demand management (TDM) measures or strategies to reduce vehicle miles traveled in urban, rural and regional areas of North Carolina. The study was guided by a technical advisory committee, comprised of members from both NCDOT and local planning organizations, that gave direction to the study and provided both important input and insights.

North Carolina Coastal Habitat Greenhouse Gas Inventory Interim Report

This interim report provides an update on the development of a greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory for North Carolina’s coastal wetlands: seagrass, emergent, and scrub-shrub. This inventory demonstrates the extent to which these coastal wetlands remove GHGs and provide a net carbon sink for the state, in addition to providing other well-known benefits such as fisheries habitat and biodiversity. The GHG assessments of coastal wetlands has built on approaches used to prepare the State of North Carolina’s GHG inventory, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2020. The North Carolina GHG inventory for seagrass is expected to be one of the first of its kind in the U.S. The inventory presented here will be incorporated into the 2024 update of North Carolina’s GHG inventory.

In 2018, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) began developing a state inventory of greenhouse gases (GHG), an economy-wide inventory that includes an accounting of GHG fluxes (i.e., emissions and removals) from natural and working lands (NWL) 4 within the “Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF)” sector. In the process of developing this inventory, the significance of NWL as major carbon sinks and their importance in helping mitigate climate change was evident to DEQ staff. While attending the US Climate Alliance and American Forests’ Learning Lab in Washington, DC (July 2018), a workshop to support states in identifying and evaluating carbon mitigation strategies for NWL, DEQ representatives developed the framework for a plan to acknowledge and leverage the carbon sequestration benefits of these lands: the North Carolina Natural and Working Lands Action Plan. The issuance of Executive Order 80 (EO 80) by Governor Roy Cooper in October 2018, which includes a goal of reducing statewide GHGs to 40% below 2005 levels by 2025, underscored the need to codify a plan for managing and enhancing NWLs to maximize their climate resilience and mitigation benefits. A North Carolina Natural and Working Lands (NC NWL) Stakeholder Group was convened, publishing their final plan in June 2020. The North Carolina (NC) Coastal Habitats GHG Workgroup (Workgroup), under the auspices of the Coastal Habitats Subcommittee of the NC NWL Stakeholder Group, was formed to facilitate the development of a coastal wetland GHG inventory.

Going forward, landscaping for all property allocated to DNCR shall only use seeds and plants that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has classified as native to the Southeastern United States. Additionally, landscaping for all projects funded by the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund shall only use these seeds and plants. Exceptions will exist for plants for crop cultivation, scientific research, botanical or historical gardens, turf grass, plantings for wildlife, or plantings for exhibits or for animal consumption at museums, zoos, and aquariums.

North Carolina Department of Natural Resources Native Plant Policy

This toolkit is an interactive document with information about Transportation Demand Management (TDM) measures that reduce VMT and the potential funding sources available to implement these measures. The toolkit is divided into two parts:

- TDM Summary Pages that describe each TDM measure including pros/cons, successful examples in North Carolina and elsewhere, and additional resources.
- Funding Pages that describe grant programs that could potentially be used to fund the implementation of the TDM measures.