International Solar Alliance Reflects Power of Global Partnership: Union Minister Shri Pralhad Joshi on ISA Foundation Day

• International Solar Alliance (ISA) is a treaty-based intergovernmental organisation co-founded by India and France at COP21, Paris (2015) to promote solar deployment, especially in the sunshine belt between Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
• Headquartered at the National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE) campus, Gwalpahari, Gurugram, Haryana — the first treaty-based intergovernmental organisation headquartered in India.
• Examinable for GS-II (international groupings) and GS-III (energy / climate change); high probability of Prelims questions on membership, HQ, founding partners.