News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

Again some weeks for visiting the temporary exhibition “We, the Rivers at the Musée des Confluences, in Lyon (France) of which IFGR is a partner: https://www.museedesconfluences.fr/fr/expositions/expositions-temporaires/nous-les-fleuves  

The 2nd edition of the Festival Between Rhone and Soane will be held on Friday 30 June, Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 July 2023. It invites visitors to look at rivers more closely, to respect them more, discover them, and protect them. For 3 days and 2 evenings, Lyon will hum with more than 340 […]

  In the presence of: ·        Erik Orsenna, economist, author, President of Initiatives for the Future of Great Rivers (IFGR); ·        Laurent Roy, General Manager of the Rhone Mediterranean Corsica Water Agency; ·        Anne Grosperrin, Vice-President of Greater Lyon, responsible for the water cycle. Mediated by Denis Cheissoux, journalist, and radio presenter (France Inter), specialised […]

Sophie Gardette, our director, spoke at the Heritage Meetings on 23 May, an event that Lyon City Hall organised this year on the theme of “The City and Water. Returns to sources?” A day for sharing a historic vision of preserving water, with concrete figures on its protection, examples of public policies adopted in certain […]

  The APVF organised its National Conference on 1 June in Millau. On this occasion the APVF reasserted its determination to “build bridges for tomorrow” so that mayors can provide concrete and immediate responses to climate and environmental issues. The APVF is a partner of the Plastic-Free Rivers Charter with IFGR and CNR. It was […]

Many of you came to ask for a replay of the conference that IFGR and its partners organised at the UNO last March on the subject of preserving Fouta Djallon. Here it is: https://lnkd.in/ecJ39vVV Thanks once again to The Bridge Tank, the Senegal River Development Organisation, the Niger Basin Authority, the French Development Agency, and […]