The Third Assembly of International Solar Alliance (ISA) recently held

The Third Assembly of International Solar Alliance (ISA) recently held

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II – Global groupings

In news

• The Third Assembly of the International Solar Alliance was recently held. 
• 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.

Key takeaways 

• 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). 
• Visvesvaraya award was also conferred. It 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 Other region.
• For COVID-19, ISA set up ISA CARES. It is 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.

Important value additions

• The ISA is an initiative that was launched by the Prime Minister of India and the President of France on 30 November 2015 at Paris, France on the side-lines of the COP-21.
• Vision: Promotion of solar energy for making solar energy a valuable source of affordable and reliable green and clean energy in member countries
• ISA Headquarter and interim Secretariat: Gurugram, India