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- India hosted the first International Solar Alliance (ISA) summit in New Delhi.
- A three-page 'Delhi Solar Agenda' issued at the end of the conference.
- In this agenda ISA reiterated its commitment to the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development.
- Also the agenda, states that countries will works to increase share of solar energy in the final energy consumption in their respective national energy mix to tackle global challenges of climate change.
- India also announced its $1.4 billion assistance for developing 27 solar projects in 15 countries.
- As per the agenda the member countries will consider off-grid solar applications to cater to the energy requirements of poorer and remote communities.
- 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.
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