Sri Lanka, May 9 -- President Ranil Wickremesinghe addresses the inaugural session of the Sri Lanka Climate Summit in Colombo

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Plans are underway to introduce legislation in Parliament, which would ensure that all government policies focus on the transformation to a highly competitive export-oriented economy, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said.

One of the items in the bill, in carrying out this transformation, is to ensure that we achieve net zero by 2050.

"And I can tell you we will achieve it before that. Sri Lanka can do it," said Wickremesinghe.

"So, in making our policies, which are going to affect all of you, not merely a transformation of an economy into export orientation but into an economy that is based on ...