Arizona Compass 2050
What is Arizona Compass 2050?
Arizona Compass 2050 (the Compass) is an Arizona-wide initiative that brings together evidence, expertise, and diverse perspectives to explore how Arizona’s economy can move toward being carbon-neutral by 2050—and to help decision-makers understand the opportunities, tradeoffs, and choices along the way.
Why does this initiative matter now?
Today’s choices have long lives
Infrastructure and investment decisions being made now can shape Arizona for decades
The future is uncertain
The Compass informs today’s decisions with tomorrow’s consequences in mind—and signals when course corrections may be warranted
Arizona’s systems are interconnected
Energy, water, transportation, industry, land/resources, and economic development cannot be considered independently
No organization has the whole picture
Utilities, governments, Tribes and Tribal Nations, businesses, not-for-profits, researchers, communities, and others each bring essential knowledge and perspectives
How does Arizona Compass 2050 work?
Step 1
Actively Listen
Engage stakeholders across Arizona.
Step 2
Synthesize
Bring together existing studies, plans, data, and expertise.
Step 3
Explore
Examine scenarios, opportunities, tradeoffs, dependencies, and uncertainties.
Step 4
Inform
Produce useful, accessible information for decision makers and stakeholders.
Step 5
Track & Adapt
Assess progress and identify when changing conditions may warrant course corrections.
Arizona Compass 2050: Helping Navigate the Way, Not Prescribing the Path
The Compass does not prescribe a single solution or pathway. It explores possible pathways for Arizona's economy to become carbon-neutral by 2050, identifies indicators for assessing progress, and helps policy and decision-makers understand when changing conditions or progress may warrant course corrections.
Outputs
What will the Compass produce?
Public knowledge base
Relevant Arizona studies, data, plans, and analyses brought together in one accessible resource.
Sector insights and briefs
Accessible findings on key parts of Arizona's economy.
Scenario narratives
Alternative futures that illuminate assumptions, opportunities, tradeoffs, and uncertainties.
Progress indicators
Measures that help assess where Arizona's economy is headed and whether course corrections may be warranted.
Arizona Compass 2050 Report
An integrated, economy-wide synthesis of potential pathways, implications, and findings.
Built for Arizona Shaped by Arizonans
The Compass brings together people who make decisions, people who study the choices, and people who experience their consequences.
Bring a perspective we need to hear
Share data, research, plans, or expertise
Participate in a listening session or discussion
Help identify opportunities, barriers, and important questions
Use and provide feedback on the Compass findings
Help Shape Arizona Compass 2050
Use and provide feedback on the Compass findings