ISA to become treaty-based international intergovernmental organisation.

TNPSC Current Affairs - November 2017 by TNPSC Guru - For Mains

International Solar Alliance (ISA) Director General Upendra Tripathy, informed that ISA will become a treaty-based international intergovernmental organisation on December 6 2017, said in the on-going Founding Ceremony of International Solar Alliance Held at Bonn, Germany

About International Solar Alliance (ISA): 

• ISA is an Indian Initiative jointly launched by India and France in sideline of COP-21 on November 30 2015 at Paris, France
• ISA aims at addressing obstacles on using solar energy efficiently and will help to utilise Solar energy efficiently in the solar energy rich countries. .
• In simple, it is an association of countries with the aim to increase the production of Solar Energy.
• As of now 44 countries have signed and 11countries ratified the framework agreement of the ISA.
• Once it is ratified by 15 countries, it will become a treaty based inter-governmental international organization.
• Most of the member countries are who either fully or partially lay between Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer.
• India has taken leadership to share its technology and funds to some African Countries (don’t have fund and technology) to harness the solar energy.