This Strategy deals with the development of the nation within a sustainable development frame. The overall objective is that sustainable and effective growth must come along with social progress and equality, national resources and environment protection, socio-political stability, firm protection of independence-sovereignty-unification and territorial integrity of the country. The strategy sets various targets on the social, economic, and environmental levels.

This Strategy is aimed to continue promoting industrialization and modernization, developing fast and sustainably; upholding the whole population strength. It provides for an overview on the national and international situation; development viewpoints; strategic objectives and breakthroughs; orientation in development innovation of growth model, and restructuring of the economy; improvement of the capacity to implement the strategy; implementation of the strategy.

This Decision approves electricity sale prices in 2009 and during 2010-2012 under the market mechanism, with the following principal contents: 1. From March 1, 2009, the average retail price of electricity is VND 948.5/kWh, exclusive of value-added tax (8.92% higher than the average electricity price in 2008). 2. From January 1, 2010, electricity sale prices shall accord with market prices.

This Decision approves the Electricity Supply Programme for Rural, Mountains area and the Islands. It is currently in its second investment phase, which focuses on bringing electricity to most of the rural households in the country by 2020; on grid-development investments to provide ethnic minorities in the communes and villages with access to the national grid; and on supporting local power sources, including renewables and battery charging stations to the villages. The contents are as follows: 1. Viewpoints; 2. Objectives; 3. Timing and scope of implementation of the program of rural electricity supply; 4. Orientation electricity supply and investment phases; 5. The need for capital and program implementation funding rural power supply, mountains, islands period 2013-2020; 6. The main measures for implementation of the program;

Sri Lanka, a tropical nation, is highly vulnerable to impacts of climate change. The national level actions have to play a critical role while international cooperation is also important. Recognizing this responsibility, the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) has launched a national initiative for facing the threat of climate change. This plan was prepared in line with the broad set of guidelines set forth by UNFCCC for development of national adaptation plans (NAPs) (UNCCS, 2012). The NAP process of UNFCCC is a generalized process consisting of four stages that could be customized according to specific situations in respective countries.

The Western Megapolis is envisioned and conceptualized as the prudent Grand Strategy for achieving two decisive inter-dependent transformations required in Sri Lanka’s forward march to achieve the status of ‘A High Income Developed Country’, namely the spatial transformation of urban agglomerations in the Western Region of the country and the structural transformation of the National Economy as a whole. Western Megapolis has three broad national goals: -To address the issues resulting from the congestion pressures that have been brought about by ‘messy urbanization’. - To create the enabling environment for propelling the nation to the status of a high income developed country; - To optimally harness the benefits of knowledge-based innovation-driven global economic environment characterized by such developments as the ‘new industrial revolution’ and emergence of ‘smart cities’.

Sri Lanka has developed the National Action Plan for the Haritha Lanka Programme in the pursuit of sustainability. The programme is captured in ten mission statements. These are: Clean Air - Everywhere, Saving the Fauna, Flora and Ecosystems, Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change, Wise Use of the Coastal Belt and the Sea Around, Responsible Use of the Land Resources, Doing Away with the Dumps, Water for All and Always, Green Cities for Health and Prosperity, Greening the Industries, Knowledge for Right Choices. The programme includes short-, medium- and long- term targets spanning the period 2009 – 2016 and performance indicators.

The document provides with an overview of the 2015 performance and the 2016 Programmes of the Ministry of Power & Renewable Energy; the Ceylon Electricity Board; the Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority; the Lanka Electricity Company (Pvt) Ltd; the Lanka Electricity Company (Pvt) Ltd; the Sri lanka Atomic Energy Regulatory Council; the Lanka Coal Company (Pvt) Ltd; and the LTL Holding Company (Pvt) Ltd.

This Code sets forth the requirements for design and/or retrofit of commercial buildings and industrial installations. It comprises of modules developed by experts in the relevant areas of expertise. Extensive stakeholder consultations were also carried out to obtain views of concerned factions and most of these concerns have been included herein. The extensive application of this code of practice will lead to reduced energy consumption and reduced electricity demand in the country, and will also support a cleaner environment through the reduction of wastes.