News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

A quarterly and fully digital #média event launched by our association in the framework of our programme #Livingwithrivers! Discover it in this 1st issue: 👉 A special file “To protect the oceans, rivers must be free of plastic”. Learn more from videos about the plastic pollution of the oceans around the world and in France, and also […]

Sophie Gardette, our director, spoke at the Heritage Meetings on 23 May, an event that Lyon City Hall organised this year on the theme of “The City and Water. Returns to sources?” A day for sharing a historic vision of preserving water, with concrete figures on its protection, examples of public policies adopted in certain […]

The 15th Festival of the Camargue at Port Saint-Louis took place from 17 to 21 May. On the programme: 5 days to discover the Camargue and the Rhone Delta with round tables, a conference-concert, event stands, photo exhibitions, etc.! For more information: Click here to view the video summarising the 15th edition of the festival: IFGR […]

  The APVF organised its National Conference on 1 June in Millau. On this occasion the APVF reasserted its determination to “build bridges for tomorrow” so that mayors can provide concrete and immediate responses to climate and environmental issues. The APVF is a partner of the Plastic-Free Rivers Charter with IFGR and CNR. It was […]

  The second session of negotiations for an international Treaty on Plastic Pollution took place in Paris in May. Some member states, notably those of the High Ambition Coalition, were mobilised and contributed essential points to this treaty, especially the global production of plastics and the banning of the most toxic formulas. Other countries were […]

Many of you came to ask for a replay of the conference that IFGR and its partners organised at the UNO last March on the subject of preserving Fouta Djallon. Here it is: https://lnkd.in/ecJ39vVV Thanks once again to The Bridge Tank, the Senegal River Development Organisation, the Niger Basin Authority, the French Development Agency, and […]