The body had already been relocated to Brazil in an updated version of the school’s geographic atlas. This change was controversial at the time.
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) A new version of the world map was released this Tuesday the 11th. to At the center of the earth COP-30It is a worldwide event held in bethlehem discuss the fight with climate change.
This map is inverted from how it is normally displayed, with the southern hemisphere at the top and the northern hemisphere at the bottom. “This is a way to recognize Belém as Brazil’s emblematic capital during the COP, with a commitment to build Brazil’s emblematic capital during this month,” IBGE said in a social media post. ecological transition Fair and sustainable profits earn excellence. ”
This expression also demarcates the territory of Brazil, the Amazon, and other countries with some of the largest tropical forests on earth, and the “Blue Amazon,” an area of the Atlantic Ocean that extends from the coast to the outer limits of the Brazilian continental platform solely for Brazil’s economic exploitation.
The COP in Belem was the 30th annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties. united nations to discuss the fight against climate change. The main objective is to reach an agreement among all countries to avoid a 1.5°C increase in global average temperature compared to the pre-industrial average. This is the first time that the COP will be held in Brazil.
In 2024, IBGE was publishing a Brazil-centered version of the world map as an update to its school geography atlas. At the time, the change was controversial and criticized on social media as reflecting an ideological view of geography education.
The Chairman of IBGE is Marcio Pochmandefended the decision to put Brazil in the center after the reaction. “The centrality of the countries of the Global North in map projections is an expression of the Eurocentric project of Western modernity. The emergence of the Global South is accompanied by a change in the position of Brazil on the world map,” he said on social media.
Brazil, the center of the world
Shortly after the “discovery” of the Americas by Europeans, the first world map was presented by Italian Alberto Cantino in 1502.
Since then, the centrality of the countries of the Global North in the map projection that is the expression of this project… pic.twitter.com/bDKHnMfnsN
— Marcio Pochmann (@MarcioPochmann) April 9, 2024
Technically, both the Belém-centered map and the Brazil map represent as accurately as possible a real surface that is spherical in a flat image. Since the universe has no upper or lower sides, any location can be considered the center, although the northern and southern hemispheres are defined only by convention. Other countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, also produce maps that center on their territory.
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