Sustainability Compliance in Georgia

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Sustainability Compliance

Does Georgia have a standalone sustainability compliance law?

No. There is no separate statute; the binding framework is created by the Law of Georgia on Environmental Protection — its goals, fundamental principles, environmental planning system and climate protection chapter, including the greenhouse gas emissions authorization regime.

Who must follow the fundamental principles of environmental protection?

State governance bodies and all natural and legal persons, regardless of ownership and organizational-legal form, are obliged to be guided by these principles when planning and implementing activities.

Which activities require a greenhouse gas emissions authorization?

Activities determined by a resolution of the Government of Georgia. Save for aviation activities, the authorization is issued by the National Environment Agency; for aviation activities it is issued by the Civil Aviation Agency. The authorization is issued for an indefinite term.

When may a greenhouse gas authorization be declared invalid?

Besides the general grounds of administrative law, the authorization lapses if the activity has not commenced within 5 years of its receipt, or if the activity has been suspended for 2 calendar years without substantiated repair or renovation works during that period.

By when must the annual greenhouse gas report be submitted?

The report is submitted annually, no later than 31 March of the relevant year, and must be verified by a verifier. The authority publishes the verified report on the environmental information portal within 5 working days of receipt.

8 min·9 Jan 2026

Sustainability Compliance in Georgian Law

In international practice the phrase sustainability compliance is often associated with dedicated corporate sustainability reporting regimes. Georgia has no such standalone statute, and it is important to say so plainly at the outset. The binding national framework that gives this concept legal content is the Law of Georgia on Environmental Protection, which sets out the goals and tasks of environmental law, a catalogue of fundamental principles, a system of environmental planning, and a climate protection chapter that now includes the authorization of greenhouse gas emissions. Together these provisions form the compulsory frame against which any business must plan and carry out its activities. This page explains what that frame requires from an undertaking in Georgia and how to approach compliance with it in practice.

Georgian legislation treats sustainable development as a system of societal development which, taking into account the interests of economic development and environmental protection, ensures growth in the quality of human life and the right of future generations to use natural resources and an environment that are maximally protected from irreversible quantitative and qualitative changes. This is not merely a declaratory formula: it produces concrete obligations for state bodies and for natural and legal persons alike, and those obligations are enforced through the machinery described below.