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  Whereas the combat against climate change has become a priority around the world, the issue of access to water and drainage for all, both essential daily requirements, remains mostly ignored by the media and international decision-makers. A major actor in the combat for universal access to drinking water, Solidarités International  recalls the urgent need to […]

Thomas Galewski, project manager at the Tour du Valat (France), was a member of the delegation present in China, for our conference devoted to rivers and biodiversity. He was able to meet the IFGR’s international experts and many Chinese actors of the Yellow River and water resources, with the Yellow River Conservancy Commission. The following […]

For the first time, IFGR gathered its experts in Asia at the invitation of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC), last October. At the head of a delegation of about forty people, Erik Orsenna, President of the association, hailed the great progress achieved to control the river in his closing speech at the conference. Known […]

On Tuesday, October 1st, IFGR organized a side-event during  SMART RIVERS, the international conference for  the actors of river transport and the global transportation network.  The AIVP, another international network involved in ports and Cities, was invited to co-animate this event. IFGR and AIVP shared the same intention to bring another view on the rivers and […]

In October 2018, IFGR brought its experts together at Toulouse and Bordeaux, in the Adour-Garonne basin, to debate on territorial resilience to climate change. This session provided the opportunity to compare practices at the international scale to match needs for water resources with their availability. Recommendations  were also addressed to the region’s relevant decision-making bodies, […]

Since 2017, IFGR has constantly spoken of the interaction between rivers, seas and oceans, with a key problem: that of plastic pollution. 80% of the macro- and microplastic waste measuring several millimetres in diameter present in salt water comes from the land (runoff and rivers) and represents a volume of about 8 million tonnes a […]