The Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change, in partnership with the Observatory of Geopolitics and Ecosocial Transitions (GeoEcos) at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), is launching the Atlas of Climate Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean, a book edited by Enara Echart Muñoz (UCM), Lara Sartorio (IMAR-Unifesp), Rubens de S. Duarte (ECEME), Breno Bringel (IESP-UERJ e UCM), Carlos R. S. Milani (IESP-UERJ e PPGMA/UERJ) and Caio Samuel Milagres (ECEME).

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.

Published by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and with thematic cartography developed by the Cartography Workshop of the World Political Analysis Laboratory (LABMUNDO), the Atlas of Climate Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean was prepared over two years by a team of approximately 40 people from the fields of research, cartography, communication, and activism. The project was funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the Rio de Janeiro State Research Support Foundation (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). The digital version of the publication is available for free download from the CLACSO digital library. The Spanish version will also be available soon, translated by GeoEcos.