AK Next Economy
Read our newest report,
Learning to Thrive: Alaska’s Next Economy in a Warming World.
Climate change is impacting Alaska’s economy, a trend that will continue to intensify as sea ice, glaciers and snow cover melt, permafrost thaws, coasts erode, and wildfires increase. These and other climate-driven changes are harming fisheries and other livelihoods and having profound effects on infrastructure, public health, cultural practices and ecosystems throughout the state.
Alaska is on the front lines of climate impacts, warming two to three times faster than the global average. Recognizing these unprecedented environmental changes, Alaskans have an opportunity to re-envision and achieve a regenerative economy that provides greater benefits and security.
Alaska’s Renewable Energy Future: New Jobs, Affordable Energy
This report by the Regenerative Economies Working Group concisely lays out a comprehensive vision for Alaska’s Next Economy.
New research developed for the Regenerative Economies Working Group of the Alaska Climate Alliance outlines the benefits of accelerating Alaska’s transition to renewable energy, including the potential of creating many thousands of new renewable energy jobs, making the high cost of energy more affordable for Alaskans, increasing energy security and creating the potential for renewable resources to support zero-carbon, hydrogen-based fuels for the aviation and maritime industries.
Alaska Is Changing.
Alaskans Are Ready.
Across our state, innovators are building resilient, equitable, and sustainable economic initiatives that improve ecological and social well-being. Join us in building the economic future we deserve.
Thriving Alaska:
Pathways To A Prosperous Future
This report is your guide to vital topics shaping Alaska’s next economy.
Learn more about what a regenerative economy is and how Alaska can have a prosperous, regenerative economy by pursuing forward-looking opportunities, including: renewable energy, broadband access, tourism and outdoor recreation, agriculture & mariculture, education and workforce development, and green hydrogen production.
True Solutions/False Solutions: A succinct comparison of energy sources
Read our 1-pager, “Energy solutions for Alaska’s future.” Renewable energy sources (eg, wind, solar, geothermal) offer true energy security. Fossil fuel projects like the proposed North Slope gas line are false solutions that suck up public resources, discourage the transition to renewables, and impede the rapid phase out of fossil fuels.
Next Steps: Alaska’s Renewable Energy Future
Renewable energy will be the foundation of Alaska’s next economy, lowering energy costs for Alaska consumers and providing many new jobs. The Alaskan legislature has a big opportunity to do something about it this year. This conversation explores how the legislature can support and accelerate Alaska’s renewable economy by extending and funding the Alaska Renewable Energy Fund, enacting a Renewable Portfolio Standard for Railbelt electric utilities, and creating a Green Bank.
Alaska’s Next Economy:
Pathways To A Prosperous Future
A visionary panel of speakers discuss actions needed to foster Alaska’s prosperous next economy in the sectors of renewable energy, green hydrogen, workforce development, tourism and outdoor recreation and other priority areas. Featuring films that showcase broadband expansion and Native-led kelp farming, this webinar highlights concrete and innovative examples of how Alaskans are building resilient and sustainable economic initiatives across the state.
We invite you to join us to hear about upcoming action opportunities and ways to get involved with a collaborative economic vision coalition, currently hosted by the Alaska Climate Alliance’s Regenerative Economies Working Group and in close collaboration with the Alaska Just Transition Collective.