News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

The 2019 Microplastics Mission will end on Saturday, November 23, during the European Week for Waste Reduction, with the return of the schooner Tara to Lorient, her home port. Lorient le 23/11/2019 This 6-month mission began on May 27 and brought together more than 40 scientists and 10 laboratories. Thousands of samples of plastic particles […]

IFGR gathered for the first time its experts in Asia, at the invitation of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC) last October. At the head of a delegation of forty people, the chairman Erik Orsenna, applauded  the high-quality of the discussions about biodiversity and the extremely rapid progress made in China to preserve the environment. 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 […]

Interview with Sun Yangbo, from Yellow River Conservancy Commission Sun Yangbo is the Division Director of International Cooperation at  Yellow River Conservancy Commission and IFGR member. From 21 to 25 October, YRCC will host our 9th international session dedicated to biodiversity, in the perspective of the COP15 that China will welcome in 2020. He explains […]

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, […]

In Bangladesh, a country that has hundreds of increasingly polluted rivers, an unprecedented legal decision was taken at the beginning of July. The Supreme Court granted rights to all the country’s rivers as living beings, and gave them a legal character to better protect them. An essential step for the rights of nature The Court […]