Sustainability compliance — Tbilisi, Georgia

You have more deadlines than you think.

Between now and 2029, Georgian companies face carbon border reporting, statutory energy audits, two ISO transitions and new rules on what you may claim in Europe. We work out which apply to you, what they cost, and what to do first.

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Obligations calendar — as at Aug 2026 Hover a date

Established 2018
CBAM · ISO · GRI
Certification partner: SGS
We prepare — accredited third parties verify

What is actually coming

Four obligations, four different reasons to act.

Not everything applies to everyone. Each of these catches a specific kind of company — and the first question is always whether it catches yours.

27 September 2026 EU green-claims rules

Generic environmental claims, self-made eco-labels and offset-based “climate neutral” claims become unlawful in the EU. Penalties reach 4% of turnover.

Anyone selling to EU consumers Every four years Statutory energy audit

Georgian law requires large companies to conduct an energy audit on a four-year cycle. Many are now due their second.

Large Georgian companies 30 September 2027 Carbon border reporting

Your EU importers need verified emissions data for goods shipped from 2026. Without it, default values apply — and they are set high.

Fertiliser, steel, aluminium, cement exporters 2029, but act by 2027 ISO 14001 & 9001 transitions

New editions of both standards are published. Every certificate must transition, and new 2015-edition certificates stop being issued in 2027.

Every certificate holder

Full obligations calendar

Automate data collection, eliminate errors, unleash business intelligence.

Create investment-grade sustainability reports that demonstrate transparency and accountability.

Continuously monitor progress towards goals and measure what matters.

How to start

Nobody should buy a program before they know the number.

So we begin small and paid, with a fixed fee and a fixed deadline. If it turns out you need less than you feared, we will tell you — that happens more often than you would expect.

Step one · two weeks

Diagnostic

A fixed-fee assessment of one specific exposure: what applies to you, what it will cost, and what closing the gap involves. Ends with a costed plan, not a sales pitch.

Step two · scoped from step one

Implementation

The work itself, priced from findings you have already seen and agreed. We credit the diagnostic fee in full against it.

Step three · annual

Maintenance

Most of these obligations recur. Once the system exists, keeping it current costs a fraction of building it.

Ask which diagnostic fits

What we believe

Compliance is the deadline. Materiality is the point.

Deadlines get you started, but they are a poor guide to where effort belongs. Every organization has a short list of impacts that genuinely belong to it — and a long list that does not. Work goes wrong when those two lists get mixed up: effort is spent on topics that read well, and nothing changes where it should.

So once the immediate obligation is handled, we go back to materiality: where your organization actually touches the environment, the economy and the people around it. Then measure, manage and change — in that order.

Our target is to have your radar switched on: to see risk before it escalates, and opportunity before someone else does. Why materiality comes after the deadline, not instead of it

Materiality assessment — illustrative Hover a topic

A drop striking coloured water, sending out concentric rings

Identify. Measure. Manage. Change.
A positive chain reaction.

Services

Eleven services. Most clients need two or three.

Take a single piece — a report, a certification, an audit — or put us on an ongoing plan and we will carry the whole program.

Statutory · ISO 50001 Energy audit

The four-yearly audit Georgian law requires of large companies — and a costed list of the measures worth doing first.

Implementation, and transition to the new 2026 editions of both the quality and environmental standards.

Installation-level emissions data for exporters whose EU buyers now need verified figures. The alternative is default values.

Every environmental claim on your packaging and marketing, audited against the rules that apply from 27 September 2026.

Producer responsibility registration and filing, regulatory evidence packs, and lender drawdown verification.

Five structured steps from hazard identification to recorded precautions, using methods your safety team already knows.

Reports built on the GRI Standards, from materiality assessment to disclosure tables — plus the scaled-down version for suppliers.

Independent verification for investors who need to know the impact claim survives contact with the investee.

Every obligation you face over the next three years on one timeline, with owners, costs and a sequence.

Turning a stated commitment into something embedded in leadership behavior, culture and job descriptions.

Reports people finish reading. Honest about what went wrong, which is what makes the rest believable.

How an engagement runs

Identify, measure, manage, change.

The order matters. Skipping straight to a report is how organizations end up with a beautiful document and an unchanged business.

01

Identify

Which obligations actually apply to you, and where your material impacts sit. Two different questions, both worth answering before anyone spends money.
02

Measure

Baseline data against the relevant requirements — emissions, energy, waste, water, safety, workforce, governance — and an honest note on where the data is weak.
03

Manage

Targets, owners and a management system that survives staff turnover. Where certification helps, we prepare you for the audit.
04

Change

Interventions where they will move the indicator, plus the training and internal communication that make them stick.
05

Report and communicate

The disclosure itself, then a version of it your employees, customers and lenders will actually read.

Georgia & the region

Green policy has become a cost line.

Georgia's environmental policy direction — air quality standards aligned to EU practice, statutory energy efficiency obligations, producer responsibility for waste, tighter fuel quality limits — has moved sustainability out of the communications department and into operations and finance.

Much of it arrives through the Energy Community Treaty and the Association Agreement, both of which bind regardless of where the accession conversation stands. The obligations are already law, and several are already overdue.

The sharper change came from outside. Since January 2026 the EU has priced the carbon embedded in imported fertilisers, iron, steel, aluminium and cement — and Georgia is among the most exposed countries in the world by export share.

What applies to you

An open-air evening conference session on a lawn, with an audience seated before a lit presentation screen — Sustainability convening, Tbilisi

A human eye painted with a map of the world — Foresight is the point of the exercise

Where most programs need work

Culture is driven from the top. Every study says so.

If people can see that leadership commitment is real, and that managers behave consistently with it, a culture of sustainability becomes possible. Without that, no amount of process survives its first busy quarter.

Visible commitment from leaders and managers, consistently demonstrated
Clear, communicated strategic commitments rather than implied ones
Sustainability treated as normal practice, not a parallel project
Employees trained, with responsibility written into job descriptions
Processes aligned to the plan rather than around it

Let's do good work together

Start with the smallest useful question.

Tell us what you export, what you are certified to, or what someone has asked you for. Usually that is enough for us to say which of these deadlines is yours and which are not. The first conversation is free.

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