Field notes
Field notes
Practical notes from reporting seasons in Georgia — meters, frameworks, water chapters, and first inventories.
These notes come out of work on real files: hotel electricity, winery diesel, hydropower years, and the templates banks actually send. They are not a newsletter about “trends.”
A first greenhouse gas inventory without a sustainability team
21 July 2026 · You need a finance owner, a year of invoices, and someone who will walk to the generator. You do not need a department.
When a topic belongs in the report — and when it does not
9 June 2026 · Materiality is a decision in a room, not a score. Packaging can lose to water. Office recycling can lose to a plant-gate complaint.
Writing a water chapter that is not a rainfall chart
18 May 2026 · Withdrawals, discharges, and a dry vintage are facts. A decorative wave graphic is not. Here is how we write water for hotels and wineries in Georgia.
Collecting energy data from a mixed building portfolio
2 April 2026 · Hotels, leased offices, and a warehouse rarely share a billing name. The inventory starts by matching meters to legal entities, not by opening a chart template.
What a Georgian company actually has to disclose under GRI and ISSB
12 March 2026 · GRI still asks for topics you choose. ISSB climate notes ask for a different kind of sentence. Most Tbilisi boards need a map, not a conversion.