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 Arizona'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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Executive Order 2023-16: Extreme Heat Planning and Preparedness

Requires the Director of the Governor's Office of Resiliency to coordinate and lead an interagency effort to develop an Extreme Heat Preparedness Plan by March 1, 2024 to ensure the State of Arizona is prepared to respond to and recover from extreme heat in future years.

In Arizona's Extreme Heat Preparedness Plan, Governor Hobbs appointed the nation’s first Chief Heat Officer to coordinate heat-specific efforts between agencies on shelter, energy, health, and disaster response.

Appointment of Chief Heat Officer

With Governor Hobbs’ leadership, Arizona will address the impacts of extreme heat, during both the upcoming summer and in the future. This Plan outlines how state agencies are preparing for another extreme heat event this year, and puts forth recommendations for how the state can prepare for future events. The development of this Plan is a significant step forward in protecting Arizonans from the impacts of extreme heat and weather events.

Extreme Heat Preparedness Plan

HB 2003: Application for certificate of environmental 4 compatibility before construction of facilities; 5 exception

Application for Certificate of Environmental Compatibility Before Construction of Facilities; Exception: A utility may replace a conductor or wire on a transmission line or may replace an existing transmission line structure or structures with a new transmission line structure or structures without seeking a new Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and without holding a hearing under this article if the replacement is on a transmission line that previously received a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility or that was in use or authorized before August 13, 1971. All replacement conductors or structures shall comply with the terms and conditions of the applicable existing Certificate of Environmental Compatibility.

HB2720

A municipality with a population of more than seventy-five thousand persons shall adopt regulations that allow on any lot or parcel where a single-family dwelling is allowed all of the following: 

1.	At least one attached and one detached accessory dwelling unit as a permitted use. 
2.	A minimum of one additional detached accessory dwelling unit as a permitted use on a lot or parcel that is one acre or more in size if at least one accessory dwelling unit on the lot or parcel is a restricted-affordable dwelling unit. 
3.	An accessory dwelling unit that is seventy-five percent of the gross floor area of the single-family dwelling on the same lot or parcel or one thousand square feet, whichever is less.

HB2721

On or before January 1, 2026, a municipality with a population of seventy-five thousand persons or more must authorize by ordinance and incorporate into its development regulations, zoning regulations and other official controls the development of duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes and townhomes as a permitted use on both of the following: 

1.	All lots zoned for single-family residential use within one mile of the municipality's central business district. 
2.	At least twenty percent of any new development of more than ten contiguous acres.