News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

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 […]

The United Nations Water Conference was held in New York from 22 to 24 March 2023. This was the first time since 1977 that this conference was held, and it brought together around 10,000 participants. 400 official events, subject to a rigorous selection procedure, were held in parallel with the conference. This was the case […]

This is the number of measures foreseen by the French government to combat water shortages in the framework of the Water Plan presented at the end of March. You can find the following here: Press kit – 30 March 2023, Action plan for resilient and concerted water management (ecologie.gouv.fr)  

The Varenne round table on agriculture, water, and climate change: an approach with high stakes combining food sovereignty and sustainable resource management By Anne-Claire Vial, President of ACTA- Agricultural Technical Institutes and member of IFGR   On 1 February 2022, the French government took stock of the conclusions of the Varenne consultations on water, agriculture […]

On the occasion of the European Week for Waste Reduction, a new guide of good practices coordinated by the Tara Ocean Foundation completes the toolbox that the initiators of the Plastic-Free River Charter propose to mayors to implement the Plastic-Free Charter with effective field actions. Initiators and leaders of the Charter, IFGR, the Tara Ocean […]

That is the trajectory of global warming reported at the end of COP 26. Although the 26th United Nations Conference, held in Glasgow in November, ended with an encouraging compromise to limit global warming, it did not conform to the objectives of the Paris Agreement aimed at keeping it “well below” 2° C and at 1.5° C if […]