News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

On the occasion of the COP15 against desertification held in May in Ivory Coast, the UN published a new report that estimated that the duration of drought episodes has increased by 29% in barely twenty years. The impacts of the availability of water resources are very severe: this year, more than 2.3 billion people, i.e. […]

A river that looks like a desert… the Parana, the second largest river in South America after the Amazon, is suffering from severe low flow conditions and its secondary tributaries have either dwindled or else dried completely in Brazil and Argentina. At the end of July, the Argentine government declared a state of hydric emergency […]

Webinar in preparation of the IUCN Local Action Summit – World Conservation Congress Webinar le 22/06/2021   In preparation of the Local Action Summit organised for the first time by IUCN during its IUCN World Conservation Congress, webinars will be held this week. IGR will be participating, in the person of James Spalding Hellmers, one of […]

  In South America, the dry season terminated at the end of October leaving a heavy ecological bill. Entire regions of Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and southern Brazil were subjected to extreme climatic conditions, causing drought, the drying of rivers and fires.  Severe drought in a large part of South America According to the NASA Earth Observatory, […]

Located on the River Parana, between Brazil and Paraguay, the Itaipu Binacional hydropower plant is the largest source of renewable energy in the world. With an installed capacity of 14,000 MW, it covers 17% of Brazil’s electricity needs and 76% of Paraguay’s. At the end of 2017, the structure reached an important milestone in its […]

Fourth international session of the IFGR panel – from 13 to 17 March 2017, at Itaipu (Paraguay). Session theme: Hydroelectricity & energy models. Itaipu (Paraguay) le 13/03/2017 The fourth session of the IFGR panel was held at Itaipu, where the dam of the same name is located, at the border between Paraguay and Brazil. On […]