IGU and IAPG signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) in December 2025
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The IGU - International Geographical Union and the IAPG signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) in December 2025. This MoA was signed by Nathalie Lemarchand (IGU President) and Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG President).
The MoA expresses a mutual desire to cooperate on a range of themes in the field of geoethics. It helps to assure a continued cooperation and coordination on issues of common interests, in particular, promotion of ethics, research integrity, and professional deontology principles in geoscientific activities through a special focus on not harming people, fostering diversity and inclusion, protecting researchers’ safety, respecting local and indigenous communities, researchers’ integrity, freedom and responsibility in research and education, promoting research and education as a common good, and safeguarding ethical concerns on geospatial technologies development and use; definition of ethical issues affecting the geoscientific community and organizations in particular, with accompanying case studies, where appropriate; co-organization of scientific events to disseminate concepts of ethics in geosciences among both the professional and research communities, with particular attention to young and early-career geoscientists; production of relevant publications and communications.IGU is an international, non-governmental, professional organization devoted to the development of the discipline of Geography.
The IGU (https://igu-online.org/) was formally established in Brussels in 1922. However, the history of international meetings of geographers is much longer. The first of a series of congresses met in 1871 in Antwerp. The purposes of the IGU are primarily to promote Geography through initiating and coordinating geographical research and teaching in all countries of the world. Its work is conducted through the instruments of its National Committees, Commissions and Task Forces. The IGU hosts the International Geographical Congress every four years and promotes regional conferences and other meetings that further of the objectives of the Union. The IGU also facilitates the participation of geographers in the global community of scientists through its formal affiliation as a Member Union within the International Science Council (ISC) and the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH).
Other IAPG affiliations and agremeents:
IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics:
IUGS - Commission on Geoethics:
CIPSH - Chair on Geoethics:
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