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Commercial Bank Reports Its CSR Spend Inside The Audited Accounts. The 1% Rule That Funds It Has Yet To Be Priced
Commercial Bank reports CSR spend as an audited line and says its Trust is funded at 1% of post-tax profit. The 2025 report never prices that 1%
Sri Lanka Promised Hydrogen Safety Standards In 2023. The 2026 Policy Allows A Year From An Effective Date It Leaves Blank
Sri Lanka's 2023 hydrogen roadmap set its first phase twelve tasks, from safety standards to pilots, and that phase ended in 2025. The policy…
Sri Lanka’s El Niño Bulletin Puts A Historic Event at 75%. The 831,000-Hectare Planting Season It Does Not Forecast Began A Month Ago
The Department of Meteorology's October ENSO bulletin puts a historic El Nino at 75% and carries no rainfall forecast. Its separate rainfall product exists;…
Sri Lanka Approved Sixteen Battery Sites. Thirteen Are Being Built, And Nobody Reported The Thirteenth
The Ceylon Electricity Board tendered 160 MW of battery storage across sixteen named grid substations, and Cabinet approved the award of all…
Parliament Voted Rs 17.2 Billion Into Sri Lanka’s Electricity Bills. Nobody Has Published Who Gets It
Parliament voted Rs 17,213 million for electricity bill relief. No account says how it reaches a bill, and the regulator's Q4 tariff…
One Cyclone, Five Ways To Count It: This Year’s CSR Figures Do Not Compare
Seven annual reports treat Cyclone Ditwah relief five ways, from labelled to unstated. Their CSR figures for the year cannot be compared…
Somebody Reads the Sustainability Statement. Fewer Than One in Five Are Investors
Europe's first CSRD statements drew as much traffic as the financials. Investors were 18.3% of their readers, employees 32.6%. What it means…
Rooftops Already Outstrip The Solar Plan. The Scheme That Built Them Has Closed
Net Metering and Net Accounting are shut to new rooftop solar. Net Plus runs 12 years, not 20, and pays Rs 17.11–23.11…
Sri Lanka’s Reservoirs Gained 295 Million Cubic Metres in Thirteen Days. Three-Quarters of It Went to the Power Stations
Three dated readings of the Mahaweli Authority's sheet: the power-station block is 40% of national capacity and took 74% of a 295…
GRI Standards Explained: A Beginner’s Guide
The world's most widely used sustainability reporting framework, in plain English — how it is built, how a company actually uses it, and why…
Start reading →ESG vs CSR vs Sustainability: What’s the Difference?
Three terms, used interchangeably in Sri Lankan boardrooms, that mean genuinely different things. One is a company's values. One is a measurement standard. One…
Start reading →What Is ESG? A Complete Guide for Sri Lankan Businesses
Three pillars. One framework. The language of modern business accountability — increasingly, the language regulators, investors, and lenders expect Sri Lankan companies to speak…
Start reading →Commercial Bank Reports Its CSR Spend Inside The Audited Accounts. The 1% Rule That Funds It Has Yet To Be Priced
Commercial Bank reports CSR spend as an audited line and says its Trust is funded at 1% of post-tax profit. The 2025 report never prices that 1%
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