Association Green Alternative

About us

Mission Statement
The mission of Green Alternative is to protect the environment, biological and cultural heritage of Georgia through promoting economically sound and socially acceptable alternatives, establishing the principles of environmental and social justice and upholding public access to information and decision-making processes.
Green Alternative’s work consists of project-focused and policy campaigns. We target large-scale development projects with detrimental environmental and/or social impacts. With varying degrees of success, in all cases, Green Alternative’s involvement has brought changes to particular projects and policies, as well as to the degree and ways in which civil society and affected communities were involved in decision-making processes. In each project or policy campaign, Green Alternative combines the campaign work with capacity building of the local groups and facilitates their direct involvement in the campaigns.   Green Alternative cooperates with non-governmental organizations both inside and outside Georgia.

Green Alternative’s current advocacy campaigns among them include campaigns on hydropower development projects that pose a significant threat to the environment and local communities, campaigns on transportation development projects,  on transparency of privatization processes, as well as policy-level campaigns targeted at newly introduced amendments to environmental legislation granting project developers undue exemption from environmental liability.