New Delhi, Dec 5: The International Solar Alliance (ISA), a global Indian initiative towards
reducing the humanity’s carbon footprints, will become a treaty-based
inter-governmental organisation on Wednesday.
The ISA, which has so far been singed by 46 countries and
ratified by 19, is headquartered in India, and has its Secretariat located in
the campus of National Institute of Solar Energy, Gwalpahari, in neighbouring
Gurugram city of Haryana.
The Alliance was jointly launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the President of France on November 30, 2015 in Paris, on the sidelines of COP-21, the UN Climate Conference.
It aims at reducing the cost of finance and cost of technology for immediate deployment solar generation plants.
The Alliance will work for harmonisation and aggregation of demand from solar rich countries lying fully or partially between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
The 19 countries which have ratified the ISA agreement include India, France, Australia, Bangladesh, Comoros, Cuba, Fiji, Guinea, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Nauru, Niger, Peru, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan and Tuvalu. UNI
The Alliance was jointly launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the President of France on November 30, 2015 in Paris, on the sidelines of COP-21, the UN Climate Conference.
It aims at reducing the cost of finance and cost of technology for immediate deployment solar generation plants.
The Alliance will work for harmonisation and aggregation of demand from solar rich countries lying fully or partially between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
The 19 countries which have ratified the ISA agreement include India, France, Australia, Bangladesh, Comoros, Cuba, Fiji, Guinea, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Nauru, Niger, Peru, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan and Tuvalu. UNI
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