Low Emissions Development Strategy

Georgia’s Low Emissions Development Strategy (LEDS) was prepared under the USAID ECLEDS Clean Energy Program to guide the country toward a lowemission, highgrowth pathway through to 2030. The strategy was developed via an extensive, participatory process involving all key ministries, sectoral working groups, and stakeholders from business, academia, and civil society.

 Energysector analysis—covering supply, buildings, transport, and industry—was undertaken using the MARKALGeorgia model, adapted with national data and supplemented by international technology assumptions. The model assessed the impacts of sectorspecific measures identified as the most feasible and implementable, and quantified both individual and combined mitigation potential. Nonenergy sectors (agriculture, forestry, waste, and industrial processes) were also integrated into the modelling.

The LEDS serves as a unifying framework for meeting Georgia’s climate commitments under the Paris Agreement and aligning with EU energycommunity obligations. It sets sectoral strategies, implementation measures, and institutional reforms, and addresses technology needs, financing mechanisms, capacitybuilding priorities, and monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) requirements.