Our Vision
A thriving, resilient Arizona by 2050 — advancing collaboration, innovation, and shared opportunity to realize a carbon-neutral economy that strengthens communities, enhances economic opportunity, and supports enduring prosperity.
Through its strategic mix of focused leadership and defined partnerships, AzCaNE creates a unified platform for Arizona’s carbon-reduction challenges. By serving as a single point of entry, AzCaNE brings together stakeholders across sectors to align efforts, optimize resources, and advance a clear, measurable pathway toward a vibrant, carbon-neutral economy by 2050.
Our Mission
AzCaNE brings together Arizona’s diverse public-sector, private-sector, Tribal, academic, and community partners to share objective, transparent information and foster collaborative, inclusive, evidence-based dialogue that guides the evolution to a carbon-neutral economy built on regional strengths and practical solutions.
Values
Central Convening Role
By integrating these efforts, AzCaNE positions itself in a central convening role for carbon-neutrality work in Arizona. Bringing together focused leadership and defined partnerships ensures all activities align with measurable goals, avoid duplication and accelerate progress toward a carbon-neutral economy within a unified platform dedicated to pursuing carbon-neutrality in Arizona.
Core Messages
AzCaNE unites academia, industry, private-sector, governmental and non-governmental groups under one strategic umbrella to address Arizona’s carbon-reduction challenges.
The Center supplies impartial, data-driven comparisons of diverse low-carbon options like hydrogen, renewable natural gas and electrification. This approach clarifies trade-offs, readiness levels and overall regional fit.
State and local leaders, investors and industry experts use these analyses to decide where to direct funding, which projects to advance first and how to align policies that protect air quality, address community needs and make measurable progress toward Arizona’s carbon-neutral economy by 2050.
What: The Center has established itself as a trusted convener, coordinating cross-sector collaboration through biweekly meetings, structured working groups and committees. These meetings pair technical expertise with policy requirements to develop shared roadmaps that move ideas from concept to funded, shovel-ready projects.
Who and why: Public agencies, businesses, community groups, investors and other stakeholders rely on AzCaNE to align goals, avoid duplicative work and translate academic research into practical policy solutions. This lays the foundation for implementing on-the-ground outcomes that drive economic and environmental progress.
AzCaNE supports Arizona’s carbon-neutrality efforts by providing neutral, evidence-based analysis on complex technical and policy issues. The Center produces accessible white papers that clarify trade-offs, address misinformation and inform both public discussion and policy decisions. Through workshops and roundtables, AzCaNE connects government, industry and researchers to surface challenges early and coordinate practical solutions.