Climate Justice in a Climate Changed World

Where I write from, in south-eastern Australia on the lands of the Kulin nation, now called Melbourne, the stark and terrifying dimensions of injustice in a climate changed world feel very present. As this season’s unprecedented bushfires in Australia took hold, we stared the new normal, of living in a climate changed world, in the face. It looked a lot like the dimensions of injustice that are already known all too well, but with much sharper and more concerning edges. Dimensions of climate injustice came into view that were perhaps previously hidden or obscured, the distributional aspects of effects and impacts so obviously burdening those already disadvantaged. Climate justice is a framework that brings into view the intersection between climate change and the way social inequalities are experienced as structural violence. Climate justice has grown in public debate and grassroots campaigning over the past decade, where not for profits and environmental NGOs in particular increasingly make the connection between human rights, uneven development and climate change. Often presented as a question of human rights, climate justice debates are often focused on the distributional effects of climate change – pointing out that those effects disproportionately burden the poorest and least disadvantaged. Much discussion in the climate justice field has examined the global maldistribution of climate change impacts, particularly between developing and developed nations. Linked with the understanding that developed nations are the biggest producers of the emissions that induce climate change, the ways that privileged nations and groups redistribute the effects of the harms they produce to burden the poor somewhere else, becomes clear. In this Interface, we bring together scholars, educators, practitioners and activists to consider climate justice from a range of perspectives that extend and deepen these more established lines of thinking. The papers examine questions for planning that are perhaps less obvious or explicitly discussed in climate justice debates. The intention here is that these issues might become more prominent in our thinking and practice. Hence, the contributions interrogate issues such as planning education, the norms of the profession, the research that underpins knowledge about climate change, and the sharing of that knowledge as justice questions in and of themselves. The papers also focus on the principal dimensions of planning response and activity in relation to climate change, especially in key sectors such as housing, and also adaptation planning. Taken together, the papers reveal that how planning responses are framed, articulated and enacted is itself a live climate justice question. The contributions reveal the importance of ongoing efforts to

我写作的地方位于澳大利亚东南部库林族的土地上，如今这里被称为墨尔本。在气候变化的世界里，不公正的严峻和可怕程度让人感受深刻。随着澳大利亚本季前所未有的丛林大火肆虐，我们直面了生活在气候变化世界中的新常态。它看起来很像我们已经熟知的不公正状况，但却有着更加尖锐和令人担忧的方面。气候不公正的各个层面显现出来，这些层面或许之前被隐藏或掩盖了，其影响的分布情况显然给那些本就处于弱势的人群带来了沉重负担。 气候正义是一个框架，它让我们看到气候变化与社会不平等作为结构性暴力被体验的方式之间的交集。在过去十年里，气候正义在公众辩论和基层运动中不断发展，尤其是非营利组织和环保非政府组织越来越多地将人权、不均衡发展和气候变化联系起来。气候正义的辩论常常被作为一个人权问题提出，往往聚焦于气候变化的分布影响——指出这些影响不成比例地加重了最贫穷和最弱势人群的负担。气候正义领域的许多讨论都审视了气候变化影响在全球的不合理分布，特别是在发展中国家和发达国家之间。由于认识到发达国家是导致气候变化的排放的最大制造者，特权国家和群体将他们所造成的危害的影响重新分配，让其他地方的穷人承受负担的方式就变得清晰起来。 在本期特刊中，我们汇集了学者、教育工作者、从业者和活动家，从一系列视角来思考气候正义，这些视角拓展并深化了这些较为成熟的思路。这些论文探讨了在气候正义辩论中可能不太明显或未被明确讨论的规划问题。这里的目的是让这些问题在我们的思考和实践中变得更加突出。因此，这些文章探讨了诸如规划教育、行业规范、支撑气候变化知识的研究以及将这些知识作为正义问题本身进行分享等问题。这些论文还聚焦于与气候变化相关的规划应对和活动的主要方面，特别是在住房等关键领域，以及适应规划方面。综合来看，这些论文表明规划应对措施是如何被构建、阐述和实施的，这本身就是一个现实的气候正义问题。这些文章揭示了持续努力的重要性……