The name of a brand new type of air pollution monitoring station, the first prototype produced by volunteers in Tbilisi, Georgia, on the weekend of 20-21 May 2023, is "AirGE". Parts of three dozen other stations have been modeled on it. Volunteers will continue to work on them in the coming weeks. During the summer, stations will be deployed in several Georgia cities to provide data on current concentrations of hazardous air pollutants.

Georgians took to the streets of Tbilisi in the first half of March to demonstrate the so-called foreign agents' law. The ruling parliamentary party, Georgian Dream, passed the law during its first reading. The law would require organizations that receive more than 20% of their funds from abroad to register as "agents under foreign influence."

Air pollution is one of the main environmental concerns for Georgia, especially in large towns and industrial centres.

Study based on satellite imagery & Copernicus data