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07.10.2022
Tbilisi’s public transport woes and faltering reforms
Residents of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi have been struggling with the city’s beleaguered public transport network, related air pollution, road congestion and inadequate access to schools and workplaces for years. In the past decade, Tbilisi authorities with the involvement of international financial institutions, set out to improve the situation. Today however, despite the availability of funds, most of the old problems persist.
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01.11.2021
Paving over paradise Khada Valley, Georgia
What were once iconic views of Georgia’s beautiful Khada Valley are slowly disappearing. Now, when you drive up the damaged road towards a narrow, 12-kilometre-long gorge, also known as the ‘valley of 60 towers’, the first thing you see is no longer the famous tower of Iukho village. Instead, a massive, white and blue metal construction site appears.
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30.06.2021
The role of traditional rituals in resisting energy injustice: The case of hydropower developments in Svaneti, Georgia
The study intervenes in the energy justice literature by bringing to the foreground the local, emplaced, and bottom-up perspective
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05.05.2021
The cracks of Shuakhevi
Water is leaking out of Shuakhevi hydropower plant’s recently reopened dam again. With three international financial institutions involved, who’s responsible for the safety of this USD 420 million project?
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10.04.2021
Saving ‘private’ Rioni: Georgia’s growing environmental protest
In just a few months, a protest against a large dam on the Rioni River has grown from a handful of people in Lechkhumi, western Georgia into a national demonstration. On the International Day of Action for Rivers, 14 March, thousands of Georgians made history with the largest environmental protest in the country’s recent past.
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17.11.2020
Georgia and the Quest for Electrical Security
Jesse Dylan Young from Johns Hopkins University, Global Policy School of Advanced International Studies, explored the energy system of Goergia, its shortcomings and future opportunities in his study “To Light the Lands”: Georgia and the Quest for Electrical Security." You can find the full text available here in English and its Georgian translation by Green Alternative.
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22.09.2020
Georgia’s precious Khada Valley at risk due to a new road to Russia
Scientists, civil activists and the local community unite and call on Europeans to join the petition to save the exceptional biodiversity and precious cultural heritage in Khada.
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17.09.2020
The never ending saga of the Nenskra HPP
The Nenskra HPP is one of 35 hydropower plants slated for development in Upper Svaneti, a region roughly one-and-a-half times the size of Luxembourg.
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11.09.2020
Georgia’s billion dollar dam violates international standards
Significant failures were found in the project’s compliance with the environmental and social policies of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment Bank (EIB).

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