The Government of Georgia approved the climate change action plan for 2024-2025. Photo: Salome Tsereteli/Agenda.ge
The Government of Georgia on Wednesday approved the climate change action plan for 2024-2025, which outlines mitigation measures in energy generation and transmission, transport, buildings, industry, agriculture, waste management and forestry.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia said the total budget of the action plan was ₾3,694,328,186 ($1.36bln).
The body added a “significant share” of the funding would come from infrastructure projects in the energy and waste sectors.
In particular, priority areas in the energy sector will be the construction of wind, solar and hydropower plants. In the waste sector, it is important to start forming new landfills and upgrading existing ones, as well as construction of urban waste water treatment facilities”, it said.
The Ministry also credited measures in the 2021-2023 and 2024-2025 climate action plans with enabling the authorities to avoid “10 to 12 percent higher climate change-causing emissions” across Georgia.