Italy joins International Solar Alliance

Italy has signed the International Solar Alliance under the amended ISA Framework Agreement.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021

The amendments to the Framework Agreement of the ISA entered into force, opening its Membership to all Member States of the UN.

The International Solar Alliance is a group of nations that lies within the Tropics (Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and receive sunshine for more than 300 days.

It is a platform for the collaboration of sunshine countries in the domain of energy security.

The energy that comes from the Sun in a day is enough for the entire globe to use for a whole year, however, we are not able to capture the entire energy that comes.

Most of the sunshine countries are poor and the least developing. Hence, solar power becomes critical for energy security.

The underlying rationale for ISA is to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all”,

It also plans to increase the share of renewable energy substantially by 2030. By 2030, it envisages enhancing international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology.