INDIA TO HOST GLOBAL BODY
India's global initiative, the International Solar Alliance (ISA), which aims at increasing solar energy deployment in member countries, has become the first treaty- based international intergovernmental organisation to be based out of India. The ISA is an Indian initiative, jointly launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President of France on November 30, 2015, in Paris, on the sidelines of COP-21, the UN Climate Conference. It aims at addressing obstacles to deployment of solar energy at scale through better harmonisation and aggregation of demand from solar- rich countries lying fully or partially between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.