What's New
Members of the state's Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change are evaluating 56 policies that could mitigate global warming's impacts and cut global warming pollution.
Environment
North Carolina is calling on the Commission to recommend a 15% cut in
global warming pollution by 2020 and an 80% cut by 2050 in its final
recommendations to the General Assembly, due in April 2008.
We're also calling on the General Assembly to enact a
Clean Cars Standard, which could cut global warming pollution from new cars in North Carolina by as much as 30 percent.
How You Can Help
Email legislators
on the Global Climate Change commission, and ask them to support
reducing global warming pollution by 15% by 2020 and 80% by 2050.
Brief Summary
Decision makers are meeting now to decide what we can do here in North Carolina to help solve
global warming.
The stakes are high for North Carolina—our beautiful coastline and mild climate draw visitors and new residents to our state.
The
good news is that our research shows that with clean, local,
farm-based energy sources, new energy-efficiency technologies, and
less-polluting cars, there’s plenty we can do to reduce global warming
pollution and provide a needed boost to our economy at the same time.
Environment North Carolina is calling for the commission to recommend reducing global warming
pollution by 15 percent by 2020, through measures that include:
• Reduced energy use through conservation and efficiency; and
• Clean Cars Standards, requiring that cars produce less carbon dioxide emissions.
