The Cost of Climate Pollution

North Carolina Executive Order Encourages Agencies to Use IWG SC-GHG

aNorth Carolina Climate Policy January 2022

• Application

  Any agency decisionmaking process that affects GHG emissions

• Date

  January 2022

• Details

  On January 7, 2022, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed an executive order, North Carolina's Transformation to a Clean, Equitable Economy, that encourages state agencies to incorporate the updated Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases estimates "into agency decision-making processes that impact GHG emissions, even if guidance has not been issued for that decision-making context." 1

• SCC Value(s)

  Based on forthcoming IWG estimates

• Legal Authority

  Executive Order 246

1. Executive Order No. 246, Sec. 6 (Jan. 7, 2022). ↩︎

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