New enterprise to process forest waste in Georgia in 2019
Georgia’s Agriculture Minister Levan Davitashvili said that by using or processing forest waste the pressure on forests and cutting forests will be reduced. Photo: N. Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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The import of timber will be exempt from value-added tax (VAT) in Georgia in order to prevent illegal tree felling in the country, Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has announced.
Georgia is tightening sanctions against illegal tree felling to reduce damage to forests and encourage the sustainable development of forests in the country.
We are starting an uncompromising battle against the illegal usage of forests, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said at today’s cabinet meeting. Kvirikashvili said the Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture is working on important changes regulating and strengthening laws that concern forests and their utilization as natural resources.
The Georgian Environment Ministry plans to design a monitoring and warning system for forest fires across Georgia that will give early notice of an impending disaster. Negotiations with foreign donors and experts have already launched.
All manufacturers in Georgia who place a product onto the market will be obliged to reduce negative environmental impact that may follow its production, use, waste recovery or disposal.
A total of 566 cases of violation of waste management code were recorded in 2018 in Georgia, announces the Environment Protection Supervision Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Protection.
First one coming to Kutaisi by 2020
A new international standard landfill will be built in Georgia’s third largest city of Kutaisi to reduce the effects of waste pollution and to introduce modern standards of waste management in the country.
Foresting licenses will no longer be issued in Georgia per the country’s new Forest Code, said head of the Department of Biodiversity and Forest Policy of Georgia’s Ministry of Environment and Agriculture Karlo Amirgulashvili.
The waste separation, collection and recycling pilot project was launched in Marneuli, Georgia’s Kvemo Kartli region.
European Union Ambassador to Georgia Carl Hartzell has challenged Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, Minister of Agriculture Levan Davitashvili and Chairman of the Parliamentary Environment Protection Committee Kakha Kuchava to show how they are helping to minimise waste in the country.
The State Sub-Agency Department of Environmental Supervision has recorded 161 cases of illegal logging and transportation of timber throughout Georgia in April 2020.
Georgia will receive a €33m grant from Green Climate Fund for efforts in developing forest waste utilisation and contribute to efforts for reducing greenhouse emissions, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture revealed on Wednesday.
Environmental protection professionals in Georgia have received a supply of equipment from the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ) to help them better study samples involved in their work of researching forest soil.
The government of Georgia has adopted a new rule on forest use that establishes a legal framework for sustainable forest management and use, while improving, protecting and preserving forest resources, announces the Ministry of Environment Protection of Georgia.
Improving hazardous and plastic waste management are among four new strategic objectives of the 2016-2030 National Waste Management Strategy and Action Plan, the Environment Ministry announced on Monday.