Claiming a role for planning in intersectional climate justice

Different dimensions of identity determine the unequal way in which people are affected by climate change (CC). Interventions to address CC can further increase injustices. A central issue for mitigation and adaptation to CC is land use. This has always been central to spatial justice and is now central to climate justice. Proposals for a fair per capita consumption of the planet are linked to land use. Debates highlight the need for rewilding, reforestation and protection of land to be achieved through the reduction of land consumption, particularly for the food system which uses half of habitable land and produces 30 % of the emissions. As the major emitters, cities need fast metabolic transformation. The article argues that urban planning is key to achieve intersectional climate justice because it has: 1) practiced a politics of limits; 2) expertise to manage a metabolic societal transformation; 3) land use tools to implement land use change; 4) focused on the metropolitan scale and urban-rural linkages; 5) the tools needed for engaging stakeholders and negotiating difficult trade-offs. However, planning tools must be used differently, adopting a transdisciplinary expansion, informed by a new ethics, including future generations, animals, and the planet among the rights' holders.