Citizen Science to Fight Dirty Air: Georgia's Network of Pollution Monitoring Reaches a Hundred Stations

TBILISI/PRAGUE - AirGE, the community network in Georgia, has reached 100 citizen science air pollution monitoring stations in 11 cities, despite the ongoing political crisis. This system, unique in the Caucasus, provides an alternative to weak state environmental monitoring and gives citizens access to information about what they breathe.The network was set up by the Tbilisi-based NGO Green Pole in partnership with Arnika, based in…

Georgia's citizen air quality monitoring network continues to grow

In cooperation with the Georgian NGO GreenPole, we continue to build an “AirGE” network of citizen monitoring of air quality. This is all part…

‘Yes to Europe, no to Russian Law’: Georgians resist attempts to shackle civil society

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