Draft Climate Action and Adaptation Plan Now Available
Throughout 2022, the City worked to develop a climate action and adaptation plan that will provide a strategic pathway to reduce the City’s emissions to net zero by 2030, explain the anticipated impacts of climate change across the City, identify the communities that will be most vulnerable to those impacts, and provide strategies that will assure that Tucson can adapt and be resilient to the impacts of climate change – now and in the future. We invite you to read and comment on our draft of the climate action and adaptation plan, Tucson Resilient Together. When you've finished reviewing the draft, click the button below to provide comments. Click here to view and download the draft plan on a separate page. In addition, the City has posted the draft climate action and adaptation plan on the Climate Action Hub website. The plan is open for public review and comments until Tuesday, Feb. 21.
The Plan
In 2020, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and the City Council declared a Climate Emergency, committing the City of Tucson to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. Through the declaration, Mayor and Council directed the City to develop a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (The Plan) to create a strategic pathway to reduce the City’s emissions to net-zero by 2030. The Plan will outline the anticipated impacts of climate change across the City, identifying the areas and communities most vulnerable to those impacts.
To support this work, the City has contracted the consulting firm Buro Happold, the advocacy organization Living Streets Alliance, the economic advisory firm of Autocase, and faculty from the University of Arizona. Through community-led dialogues and various public events, the City will co-develop and inform The Plan, and strategies therein, in partnership with residents, communities, and businesses in Tucson. The result: a collaborative and people-centered plan to support healthy communities, environmental stewardship, and a just economy and society.
The Plan will serve as the primary Climate section element of the forthcoming Tucson General Plan Update, Plan Tucson. It will also align with numerous past, present, and future planning efforts, including but not limited to Move Tucson, the One Water 2100 Master Plan, the Drought Preparedness and Response Plan, and the People, Communities, and Homes Investment Plan (P-CHIP).
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