INTERNATIONAL SOLAR ALLIANCE Flashcards
WHY IN NEWS?
5TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY of ISA was presided by India and france
ABOUT ISA
The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is an alliance of 121 signatory nice countries, most being sunshine countries, which lie either completely or partly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. The primary objective of the alliance is to work for efficient consumption of solar energy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. This initiative was first proposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a speech in November 2015 at Wembley Stadium (London HA9 0WS, United Kingdom), in which he referred to sunshine countries as Suryaputra (“Sons of the Sun”).
The alliance is a treaty-based inter-governmental organization. Countries that do not fall within the Tropics can join the alliance and enjoy all benefits as other members, with the exception of voting rights.
The initiative was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India Africa Summit, and a meeting of member countries ahead of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in November 2015.
signatories- 110
ratified by 90
The ISA is headquartered in Haryana, India. In January 2016, Narendra Modi, and the then French President François Hollande jointly laid the foundation stone of the ISA Headquarters and inaugurated the interim Secretariat at the National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE) in Gwal Pahari, Gurugram, India.
The Indian government has dedicated five acres of land on the NISE campus for its future headquarters; it also has contributed ₹1.75 billion (US$22 million) to the fund to build a campus and for meeting expenditures for the first five years.
OSOWOG
Green Grids Initiative — One Sun, One World, One Grid (GGI — OSOWOG) is an initiative by International Solar Alliance (ISA), India and United Kingdom to build a global green energy grid, primarily focusing on solar and wind energy.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed the One Sun, One World, One Grid (OSOWOG) initiative in the first assembly of ISA in October 2018. United Kingdom and India agreed to merge their Green Grids Initiative (GGI) and OSOWOG initiatives respectively, during the UK—India Virtual Summit in May 2021.
On the side lines of COP26 in November 2021, the merged initiative was launched.
About 83 ISA member nations have endorsed the initiative. The ISA and the World Bank are instrumental in the implementation of initiative.
