Tucson, UArizona Program Awarded Grant For Climate Change

TUCSON, AZ — Tucson is being financially rewarded for its efforts to combat climate change.

The city of Tucson's Climate Action Plan and the University Climate Change Coalition program at the University of Arizona have received a grant from the Arizona Institutes for Resilience to develop community listening sessions, the organization announced in a news release.

The city's plan, headed up by Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, will receive a $16,940 grant. The listening sessions the grant will fund will supplement the city's current efforts to gain input from the community, which it launched through a recent community survey.

The input from the survey, according to the mayor, will help create a path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and respond to the effects of climate change.

Patch has reached out to the mayor's office for additional comment.

“The grant is supported by the Technology and Research Initiative Fund,” John O’Neil, Vice President of Research and Development at the UArizona, said in a statement. “It will help to position Tucson at the center of an international effort to build climate solutions in partnership between universities and their communities.”

The listening sessions and workshops will form a framework the city will use in determining other police decisions.

“Collaborations like this will foster new opportunities for partnerships between UArizona, the City of Tucson, and our community around climate action and resilience,” Romero said.