INTERNATIONAL SOLAR ALLIANCE (ISA)

Oct. 15, 2020

The Third Assembly of the International Solar Alliance has been attended by 34 ISA Members ministers.

About:

  • India has been re-elected as the President of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) and France as the Co-President for a term of two years.

  • The assembly also approved the initiatives of the ISA Secretariat in institutionalizing ISA’s engagement with the private and public corporate sector through the Coalition for Sustainable Climate Action (CSCA).

  • The assembly witnessed the conferment of the Visvesvaraya award which recognizes the countries with maximum floating solar capacity in each of the four regions of ISA. The awards went to Japan for the Asia Pacific region and the Netherlands for Europe and Others region.

  • In the wake of the global pandemic, ISA set up ISA CARES, an initiative dedicated to deployment of solar energy in healthcare sector in LDC/SIDS ISA Member countries. The initiative aims to solarize one primary health sector in each district of the target Member countries. 

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