Sri Lanka Now Has a Producer-Responsibility Law. Nobody Owes Anything Under It Yet
Sri Lanka’s Act No. 15 of 2026 creates extended producer responsibility, but names no goods, targets or fees. The 40% and 50% figures are not law.
Sustainability
Sri Lanka Has Fixed Its Maha Planting Date. The Reason It Added Is the One Nobody Was Arguing About
Sri Lanka fixed Maha sowing at 15-25 October: crops a month old before November rain, harvested before the January dry. The drought reason never left
Hemas Publishes a Four-Year CSR Reach Number. It Has Fallen Every Year, and No Report Says Why
Hemas reports reaching 143,100 people in FY2025/26, down from 525,500 three years earlier. No report explains the fall, or its two spending figures
Sri Lanka’s New Feed-in Tariff Decision Contains Three Things Its Own Press Release Does Not
The Public Utilities Commission reset renewable feed-in tariffs on 21 August. The decision defines a four-hour prioritised window, caps storage exports at 123 kWh per kW, and makes grid clearance the eligibility gate. None of the three is in the coverage.
Union Assurance Measured Something: Almost No Sri Lankan CSR Program Measures. The Strongest Number Is Not in the Annual Report
Suwamaga screened 23,000+ across 25 districts. Its impact report says 3% were newly diagnosed with diabetes. The annual report does not carry that number.
Ceylon Tea’s Next EU Deadline Is 12 February 2028 — and It Asks for a Different Bag, Not a Different Form
EU law makes permeable tea bags compostable from 12 February 2028. What Article 9 asks of Sri Lankan tea exporters, and five exporter questions answered.
Sri Lanka’s Eco-Label Question Has an Answer Nobody Has Given — and the EU Rule That Makes It Matter Applies on 27 September
From 27 September 2026 the EU bans four green claims outright. One bans uncertified labels – and Sri Lanka already has a certified scheme running.
The Paris Agreement Just Became a Tariff Condition for Sri Lankan Exporters
The EU’s new GSP Regulation applies from 1 January 2027. It replaces the Kyoto Protocol with the Paris Agreement among the conventions GSP+ depends on, and makes every beneficiary reapply by end-2028 — putting a climate pledge inside a Sri Lankan trade file worth about EUR 1.5 billion a year.
Sri Lanka’s Reservoirs Have Nearly Halved Since March. The Electricity Tariff Has Not Moved — Yet
PUCSL held Q3 2026 electricity tariffs flat on a Rs 417 mn gap while major reservoir storage fell from 76.74% to about 40%. Q4 is the exposure.