Project Overview
The City of Flagstaff is updating the Carbon Neutrality Plan (CNP). This is our community's roadmap to prepare for climate risks, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and protecting residents' well-being for decades to come.
The CNP sets clear goals to guide the City's climate action and collaboration with the community, with the shared aim of creating a healthier, more affordable, and more sustainable community.
The CNP is a living document that is regularly updated to reflect progress, integrate community feedback and improve how it is used by the community. The City's Sustainability Team is working with City staff, community partners and residents to refresh the Plan. An updated CNP will be presented to City Council in June 2026.
The 2025-2026 update will make the Carbon Neutrality Plan (CNP) more up-to-date, accessible, and usable. This update will also better balance the Plan's three goals.
This update will change:
- How the CNP is organized.
- How the CNP is used by the community: The Carbon Neutrality Plan was written as an educational document. This update will move educational information, case studies and background infromation onto the Plan website, available at www.Flagstaff.az.gov/ClimatePlan. This will make the Plan a shorter, consolidated strategic document.
- How we communicate about implementation: we'll revise the implementation actions that help achieve the CNP's goals. These implementation actions were previously listed in the CNP as examples of potential actions. Actions will be moved onto a dashboard, to keep the community informed of the CIty's work.
This update will not change:
- The CNP's three overarching goals, to achieve carbon Neutrality, prepare for changing conditions, and improve community equity.
- The intent of the strategies within each target area of the CNP. Minor revisions may be made to CNP strategies for clarity or consistency.
To learn more about the update to the Carbon Neutrality Plan, see: the Plan Update webpage.
