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Arizona Executive Order 2025-09: Protecting Arizonans from Heat Risk in the Workplace
May 22, 2025
Following back-to-back record breaking heat in 2023 and 2024, the Executive Department of Arizona under Governor Katie Hobbs issued Executive Order 2025-09 to address extreme heat as a recognized occupational hazard and require stronger workplace protections.
Related Organizations: State of Arizona
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Arizona’s Extreme Heat Preparedness Plan
March 1, 2024
In March 2024, the State of Arizona published its Extreme Heat Preparedness Plan, recognizing the increasing impacts of extreme heat on the state, outlining how state agencies are preparing for heat events, and making recommendations for future actions to prepare for extreme heat. The plan builds on a 2023 executive order on extreme heat planning and preparedness.
Related Organizations: State of Arizona
Resource Category: Planning
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Arizona Executive Order 2023-16: Extreme Heat Planning and Preparedness
August 11, 2023
Executive Order 2023-16, Extreme Heat Planning and Preparedness, was signed in 2023, requiring the development of a statewide plan to address and prepare for the increasing impacts of extreme heat in Arizona. The EO recognizes the worsening public health effects from heat events and establishes new requirements to improve planning and preparedness for extreme heat.
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City of Tempe, Arizona 2019 Climate Action Plan
2019
The City of Tempe, Arizona’s first Climate Action Plan (CAP) offers a roadmap toward sustainability and climate change resilience focusing on emissions reductions in transportation and energy use, and resilience to extreme heat. The plan includes twelve climate mitigation and adaptation actions for the city government, businesses, and residents of Tempe.
Related Organizations: City of Tempe, Arizona
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City of Flagstaff, Arizona Climate Action and Adaptation Plan
November 20, 2018
The City of Flagstaff, Arizona’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) aims to guide the Flagstaff community toward strengthening climate resilience, reducing emissions, and addressing equity concerns throughout the plan’s implementation. The CAAP presents goals, strategies, and specific actions for Flagstaff to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and prioritizes climate action at the City level.
Related Organizations: City of Flagstaff, Arizona
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Key Principles of Watershed Investment: Restoration Priorities
Carpe Diem West is a nonprofit dedicated to addressing “the profound challenge of increasing climate impacts on our water resources in the American West.” They developed this brief to offer an overview of watershed restoration initiatives in the western U.S. that demonstrate successful agency partnerships, investments, and climate adaptive and restoration projects for watershed resiliency - in order to support the creation of more actionable watershed investment plans.
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Arizona Climate and Health Adaptation Plan 2017
April 2017
The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) developed this statewide climate and health adaptation plan as a participating agency in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Climate Ready States and Cities Initiative. The plan includes strategies to guide adaptation with the intention to support the development of public health preparedness related to climate-sensitive hazards in Arizona.
Related Organizations: Arizona Department of Health Services
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Case Study: Scottsdale, Arizona’s Cool Roofs Workshop
February 23, 2017
In 2015, the City of Scottsdale, Arizona hosted a Cool Roof workshop series, to promote the use of cool roofs as a strategy for increasing the energy efficiency of buildings and reducing urban heat islands. Cool roofs are designed to reflect sunlight and heat away from a building, reducing roof temperatures and urban heat islands. Cool roofs also reduce energy use, ambient air temperature, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and improve human health and comfort. [ref title=""]US Environmental Protection Agency, Using Cool Roofs to Reduce Heat Islands, available at https://www.
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Climate Adaptation: The State of Practice in U.S. Communities
November 16, 2016
Looking at 17 communities engaged in adaptation, this report examines what communities are doing to address climate risks. It finds that communities are often motivated by extreme climate event and are more focused on reducing their current vulnerabilities to extreme events, compared to addressing future climate impacts. Despite this, there is encouraging evidence that communities can begin addressing climate change risks and overcome barriers to action and implementation. The 17 case studies provide insights into the key components of a well-adapted community.
Related Organizations: Abt Associates, The Kresge Foundation
Authors or Affiliated Users: Jason M. Vogel, Karen Carney, Charles Herrick, Missy Stults, Megan O'Grady, Alexis St. Juliana, Heather Hosterman, Lorine Giangola, Joel B. Smith
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Building Community Resilience in Maricopa County, Arizona
October 2016
In Maricopa County, Arizona - Greater Phoenix area - the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) has supported a multi-stakeholder project to build community engagement, social cohesion, and climate resilience. In partnership with Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, a place-based foundation focused on strengthening Maricopa County, ISC has completed this assessment of community resilience by researching local Social, Economic, and Environmental resilience. In this report, ISC offers a strategic framework to build community resilience in Maricopa, and to help guide the evolution of the Trust’s programming and grant-making in 2016 and beyond.
Related Organizations: Institute for Sustainable Communities
Authors or Affiliated Users: Steve Adams, Henry McKay, Karina French
Resource Category: Assessments
