Blogs - Green Alternative

22.10.2024

A flawed rollout: How the EBRD’s efforts to tackle harassment on Tbilisi public transport have fallen short

The EU’s Gender Action Plan for Georgia, disclosed in March of this year, provides information on several other projects that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will be financing with the aim of promoting gender equality in the country.
04.07.2024

Unsolved problems of the North-South Corridor

The Kvesheti–Kobi highway, part of the International North–South Transport Corridor, cuts through Georgia’s picturesque Khada Valley. Financed by the EBRD and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the highway has been an environmental disaster for the landscape, biodiversity, and heritage of the region. If that weren’t enough, the local community has to contend with land grabs and intimidation for simply raising their concerns.
06.06.2024

Natural Disaster in Guria in 2023

Climate change in Georgia leads to the activation of natural processes and an increase in the risk of disasters.
24.05.2024

Impact of climate change on women

Women living in Georgia realize that climate change has a significant impact on their lives. However, urban and rural women perceive and experience the impacts of climate change differently.
17.05.2024

Russian Law must be withdrawn unconditionally

Civil society member of Green Alternative Manana Kochladze shares her takeaways from the meeting and concerns about Georgia’s newly passed ‘foreign agents’ law.
02.05.2024

The promise and perils of Georgia’s East–West Highway project

Khevi, a village cradled by the slopes of the Likhi Range, lies 140 kilometres west of Tbilisi. Reaching this rural community from Georgia’s capital involves driving along the dangerous and as-yet unfinished Rikoti section of the East–West Highway.
30.04.2024

The November Amnesty: A humane act or a legalization of land grabbing?

On November 15, 2023, the Parliament of Georgia adopted the Law of Georgia on Amnesty, which had been proposed by the Prime Minister two months earlier.
05.10.2023

Green Alternative’s Comments and Recommendations on the Tbilisi Transport Plan

The Tbilisi Transport Plan (TTP), formerly known as the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP), is a crucial document guiding the capital toward sustainable mobility.
04.09.2023

Tbilisi’s transport policy conundrums: between resolution and resistance

In 2018, Tbilisi authorities set out to decrease the city’s car dependency, reduce traffic jams, improve air quality and develop better infrastructure for walking and cycling. But despite investment from the EBRD and ADB, there has been little improvement.