# Climate Justice **Domain:** Climate / Ethics / Political Economy **Doc Type:** Canonical Justice Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Climate justice** holds that climate causes, exposures, adaptive capacities and decision-making power are distributed unequally, and that climate policy must address those inequalities rather than treating aggregate emissions or aggregate efficiency as sufficient. It includes distributive justice, procedural participation, recognition of local and Indigenous authority, historical responsibility, protection against displacement and fair access to adaptation and transition benefits. ## Reparative Context [[articles/Climate Justice and Reparative Equity|Climate Justice and Reparative Equity]] frames climate exposure as measurable disequilibrium. [[articles/Climate Justice as a Form of Reparative Equity|Climate Justice as a Form of Reparative Equity]] develops the transition from moral language to operating code. [[articles/Climate Justice and Global Reparative Systems|Climate Justice and Global Reparative Systems]] supplies the institutional stack required to make repair auditable and contestable. ## Planetary-Intelligence Context Climate science gives civilization a form of planetary self-observation. [[wiki/Climate Data Infrastructure|Climate Data Infrastructure]] and [[wiki/Planetary Sensing Grid|Planetary Sensing Grid]] can reveal where heat, flood, drought, health burden and infrastructure failure accumulate. Perception creates steering capacity, not automatic justice. [[wiki/Climate Meritocracy|Climate Meritocracy]] prices exposure without a duty to repair it. [[wiki/Corrective Intelligence|Corrective Intelligence]] connects exposure to protection, adaptation and restored agency. ## Governance Requirements Climate governance should preserve [[wiki/Model Contestability|Model Contestability]], [[wiki/Score Separability|Score Separability]], public-purpose obligations, local participation and [[wiki/Programmable Reciprocity|Programmable Reciprocity]] when public or community data creates commercial value. ## Key Insight **Climate justice asks whether planetary self-knowledge will price vulnerability, repair it or use it to govern without consent.** ## See Also [[wiki/Environmental Justice|Environmental Justice]], [[wiki/Reparative Justice|Reparative Justice]], [[wiki/Equity Frameworks|Equity Frameworks]], [[wiki/Historical Responsibility|Historical Responsibility]], [[wiki/Indigenous Knowledge Systems|Indigenous Knowledge Systems]], [[wiki/Rights|Rights]]