News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

For this 6th edition, IFGR’s special Covid-19 logbook offers you 4 contributions, which once again highlight the multiple facets of the global crisis we are going through: health of course, but also environmental and economic aspects. These cross-sectoral analyses once again reflect all the richness of the IFGR River Committee, in addition to being the […]

The COVID-19 pandemic was a reminder of the vulnerability of our societies and our interdependence. Humans must both accept uncertainty and show humility: they cannot control everything, they must learn to cope with risks -natural or health-related- and respond to crises with a range of measures, of different natures and on different scales of time […]

The fact is now established: the coronavirus pandemic is profoundly shaking our systems but also our certainties. The shock is immense: the health crisis has turned into an economic, even political crisis. The epidemic, which was limited for several months to one region of China, has spread rapidly throughout the world. No country has been […]

Launched three weeks ago, our logbook “COVID-19: the latest news of the world” offers this week the crossed views of four of our experts for an analysis of the impacts and treatment of the crisis, from Asia to Europe, from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere. This week, our logbook is enriched by four […]

In its logbook “COVID-19: the latest news from around the world”, IFGR experts invite you this week to better understand what these diseases transmitted from animals to humans are and what they say about our relationship with nature.     For this second week, you can read the testimonies of : Mirdad Kazanji, Director of […]

During this unprecedented period of global health crisis caused by the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, IFGR shares with you the views of its members around the world. Each of them will regularly provide us with an overview of the epidemic in their country but also an analysis of what it reveals about our society and our […]