Amazon Quiz: Which two countries have been re-elected President and Co-President of the International Solar Alliance?
Options:
India and France
India and UK
UK and USA
India and Japan
Answer- India and France
The International Solar Alliance is a joint alliance of 121 countries, with most of them lying between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The initiative was first proposed by India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in November 2015 during a speech he gave at the Wembley Stadium.
India and France have been re-elected as the President and co-President of the alliance. The official languages of the ISA are Hindi, English, and French.
According to an official press release by the Government of India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, “The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is a treaty based inter-governmental organization working to create a global market system to tap the benefits of solar power and promote clean energy applications. With 75 signatory countries in this global collective, the ISA creates a multi-stakeholder ecosystem where sovereign nations, multilateral organizations, industry, policymakers and innovators work in together to promote the common and shared goal of meeting energy demands of a secure & sustainable world.”
The objective of the ISA, according to the same release, is “Parties hereby establish an International Solar Alliance (hereinafter referred to as the ISA), through which they will collectively address key common challenges to the scaling up of solar energy in line with their needs.”
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