News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

On 11 May IFGR organised a dialogue with Emma Haziza, hydrologist, PhD, graduated from the Ecole des Mines de Paris, specialist in territorial resilience strategies against climatic risks and expert in managing risks linked to floods and drought. A lecturer and founder of the research centre Mayane and the start-up Mayane Labs, she answered our […]

“The World Water Forum at Dakar must generate the impetus of individual and collective empowerment”.  With the 9th World Water Forum scheduled for 21 March 2022 at Dakar, Hamed Diane SEMEGA, the High Commissioner of the Senegal River Development Organisation (OMVS) and member of the IFGR, sheds light on the challenges of this meeting in order to […]

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 […]

Johannes Cullmann is the Director of the Climate and Water Department at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He is also the Director of the Secretariat to the Water and Climate Coalition (WCC), a multi-stakeholder initiative under the SDG 6 Accelerator framework that IFGR joined in 2021. We interviewed him after he attended COP26 in Glasgow […]

On the occasion of COP26, the United Nations Information Service in Geneva welcomed Erik Orsenna, President of IFGR, as a guest for its podcast of the week. Why is it essential to put rivers back at the heart of international negotiations, as COP26 opens in Glasgow? Considered as the Conference of the Parties of “the […]

“We have to act on the entire ecosystem if we want to stop systemic crises continuing to occur” Gathered together in the Strategic Partners Committee of the “One sustainable Health Forum”, the international associations Friendship[1] and IFGR share the same ambition of achieving more harmonious relations between human beings and their environment. This ambition first focuses […]