DOI： 10.19830/j.upi.2025.510
Planning Practices of France in Response to Climate Change from the Perspective of Local Governance
Keywords：
climate change; urban and rural planning; sustainable development; carbon reduction; ecological transition
Abstract：
The intensification of global climate change poses unprecedented challenges and transformational demands on resource management. China has set a “dual-carbon” target in 2020, aiming to realize a more sustainable resource management transition. In this process, urban and rural planning plays a crucial role as a public intervention on spatial resources management. Based on national and international scientific literature, this paper reviews the role of urban and rural planning in the fight against climate change, the importance of local governance and the challenges it encounters. It then summarizes the national laws and policies that have been proposed or revised in France in response to climate change since the turn of the century, as well as their trends and characteristics. On this basis, the paper introduces the five papers in this special issue. Finally, it briefly discusses lessons from the French experience for the transformation of local governance of planning in China in the context of climate change.