News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

Gil Mahé, director of research at the Institute of Research and Development (IRD) is a specialist in the great African rivers. Here, he shares his knowledge to provide better understanding of the mechanisms in play in the Inner Niger Delta, an extraordinary wetland. He also sets out its perspectives, with the predictable impacts of climate change on this habitat and above all on human activities.

Dominique Berod, responsible of the monitoring’s division for Earth System at the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has recently joined the Rivers Committee of IFGR. Below, he describes the key role played by his organisation, which has just celebrated its 70th anniversary, within the UN network on water and for the 190 member countries. Above all, […]

Interview with Mirdad Kazanji, Director of the Institut Pasteur of French Guyana and member of IFGR   At a time when the Health Authorities of different countries are preparing to authorize the Covid-19 vaccines, we have once again asked Mirdad Kazanji* for a useful insight into the way they were developed and the challenges of […]

Interview with Anoulak Kittikhoun, Chief Strategy and Partnership Officer of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat and new IFGR member       What is the hydrological situation in the Mekong basin right now? The region has gone through two years of severe drought. What is at stake? For the second consecutive year, the Lower […]

Jean-Louis Chaussade has joined the Board of Directors of IFGR. Chairman of the Board of Suez (May 2019/May 2020), since 2008 he was the Managing Director of Suez, a world leader in water and waste management. In Spain, South America and France, he has devoted most of his professional career to the environment and contributed […]

An unknown virus, soon labelled SARS-CoV-2, emerged in Wuhan (Province of Hubei, China) at the end of 2019, and quickly shook the entire planet within only a few weeks.  The crisis became global and the shock was radical: in addition to the impact on health, the economic, societal and political repercussions were immense   Our […]