Gov’t approves 2023-2025 plan for managing atmospheric air quality in Central Zone
The Government of Georgia has approved a plan for managing atmospheric air quality in the Central Zone of the country for 2023-2025. Photo: Ministry of Environmental Protection
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The Government of Georgia has approved a plan for managing atmospheric air quality in the Central Zone of the country for 2023-2025, the Ministry of Environmental Protection announced on Wednesday.
The Ministry said the zone was one of six areas designated for the monitoring, with the others comprising the Black Sea, Western, Eastern and Highland zones and the Tbilisi Agglomeration.
The new plan covers the central-eastern city of Rustavi near Tbilisi, and municipalities of Marneuli and Bolnisi, where a “number of activities” related to the improvement of air quality are planned.
The plan includes expansion of air quality monitoring, assessment of the impact of air pollution on human health and efforts for raising public awareness.
The Ministry said the plan had been created with the support of the United Nations Development Programme and the Government of Sweden, with Ministry officials, international and local experts working on the document.
Nino Chkhobadze, the Chair of the Greens Movement of Georgia/Friends of the Earth - Georgia, on Thursday told the Georgian Public Broadcaster the country’s territorial seas were “completely free of pollution” and not under the threat of being contaminated with waters from the flooding of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine in June.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday announced Government plans to introduce the Euro 5 emissions standard for cars in a bid to reduce air pollution across the country.
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Illegal forest felling, waste management violations and breaches of laws on minerals were among environmental infringements identified by state supervision across Georgia over the past year, the Environmental Protection Ministry said on Friday.
The quality of the Black Sea waters is “within norm” based on analyses of samples obtained between July 26-30 across the western Georgian coastline, the country’s National Environmental Agency said on Friday.
The National Environmental Agency of Georgia on Tuesday said the quality of the Black Sea waters was “within norm” based on analyses of samples obtained between August 5-9 across the western Georgian coastline. The body said concentration of 13 heavy metals, total oil hydrocarbons, 16 polyaromatic hydrocarbons and other physico-chemical parameters had been measured in the samples.
Nino Tandilashvili, Georgia’s Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection, on Thursday announced nine new monitoring stations would be installed across the country to improve air quality monitoring.
A new automatic station has been added to the network of air quality monitoring infrastructure of the National Environment Agency in capital Tbilisi as part of the latest additions for improving monitoring of particles in the air of the city.