The International Solar Alliance (ISA) and Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) signed Host Country Agreement in New Delhi.
The Agreement will give ISA a juridical personality and gives it power to contract, to acquire and dispose of movable and immovable properties, to institute and defend legal proceedings.
ISA shall be deriving its status, privileges and immunities as per Article 10 of the Framework Agreement.
ISA
The ISA is an Indian initiative, jointly launched by the Prime Minister of India and the president of France on November 2015 in Paris, on the side-lines of COP-21, the UN climate conference.
The International Solar Alliance is alliance 121 countries, most of them being sunshine countries, which come either completely or partly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
The primary objective is to collectively work for efficient exploitation of solar energy to reduce dependence on fossil-based fuels.
The Headquarters is in India with its Interim Secretariat being setup in Gurgaon.
The agreement will become operational after at least 15 countries have ratified it.
It is also expected to mobilise $1 trillion for funding solar energy projects by 2030.
The institutional structure of ISA consists of an Assembly, a Council and a Secretariat.