LABMUNDO Cartography Studio releases ‘Atlas of Climate Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean’, a partnership between OIMC and GeoEcos
The Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change (OIMC) at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and the Observatory of Geopolitics and Ecosocial Transitions (GeoEcos) at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) are launching the latest work from the LABMUNDO Cartography Studio: the Atlas of Climate Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edited by Enara Echart Muñoz (UCM), Lara Sartorio (IMAR-Unifesp), Rubens de S. Duarte (ECEME), Breno Bringel (IESP-UERJ and UCM), Carlos R. S. Milani (IESP-UERJ and PPGMA/UERJ) and Caio Samuel Milagres (ECEME) and published by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) , the book was developed over two years by a team of approximately 40 people from the fields of research, cartography, communication and activism, bringing together labmundanas and labmundanos with researchers from both observatories.
This volume is a powerful portrait of a decisive moment in history. While the climate emergency forces us to consider the connections between geological time and the present, creating points of no return in various regions and many ecosystems on the planet, “green” solutions based exclusively on short-term economic logic reinforce social inequalities without addressing the root causes of the ecological crisis. With this backdrop as the starting point for debate, the Atlas translates the complexity of ongoing disputes about how to redesign society-nature relations in the face of the many challenges of the 21st century into pedagogically accessible maps, graphs, timelines, matrices, and narratives. Offering critical thematic cartographies and visual narratives, the work not only informs, but also proposes a way of seeing and thinking about territory, power and resistance, contributing to the debate on what is at stake in the contemporary climate and ecological crisis.
The project was funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Faperj), the Programme for Attracting Research Talent to the Community of Madrid (TalentoCM), the Climate and Society Institute (iCS), and, for the printed version in Portuguese, the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam). Available for free download from the Clacso virtual library, this is the third publication with thematic cartography produced by our Cartography Studio, which has already published the Atlas of Brazilian Defence Policy and the Atlas of Brazilian Foreign Policy, the new version of which is scheduled for release in 2026.