The authority had already repositioned Brazil in an updated version of the school’s geographical atlas. At the time, the change sparked controversy
the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) A new version of the world map was released on Tuesday, 11th of this month, with a status to In the middle of the planet, as a means of evaluation Thirtieth Conference of the PartiesIt is a global event taking place in Bethlehem To discuss the fight Climate change.
The map is inverted from what it normally appears, with the Southern Hemisphere at the top and the Northern Hemisphere at the bottom. In a post on social media, IBGE stated “it is a way to evaluate Belem as the symbolic capital of Brazil during the COP, the month in which a commitment is made to building a community.” Environmental transformation Outstanding fair and sustainable gains.”
The representation also demarcates the territories of Brazil, the Amazon and other countries that have parts of the largest tropical forest on the planet and the “Blue Amazon,” the area of the Atlantic Ocean that extends from the coast to the outer limit of the Brazilian continental platform, exclusively for Brazil’s economic exploitation.
The Belém COP is the 30th edition of the “Conference of the Parties”, an annual event held by United Nations To discuss combating climate change. The main goal is to reach agreements between all countries to avoid an increase in the Earth’s average temperature of 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the average before the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This is the first time that the Conference of the Parties has been held in Brazil.
In 2024, IBGE published a version of the world map with Brazil at the centre, in an updated version of the school’s geographical atlas. At the time, the change sparked controversy, with accusations on social media that it reflected an ideological view of teaching geography.
Chairman IBGE, Marcio BuchmannHe defended the decision to put Brazil in the center after the backlash. “The centrality of the Global North in cartographic projections is an expression of the European project of Western modernity. The emergence of the Global South accompanies the repositioning of Brazil on the world map,” he said on social media.
Brazil is in the heart of the world
Shortly after the “discovery” of the American continent by Europeans, the first world map was presented by the Italian Alberto Cantino, in 1502.
Since then, the centrality of the Global North in cartographic projections has become an expression of the project… pic.twitter.com/bDKHnMfnsN
– Marcio Buchmann (@MarcioBuchmann) April 9, 2024
Technically, both the map with Belém in the middle and the map of Brazil are as correct as possible to represent a true spherical surface in a flat image. In space, there is no top and bottom, so only the northern and southern hemispheres are defined by convention, while any place can be considered the center – other countries such as Australia and New Zealand also make maps in which their territories appear at the centre.
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