{"id":146054,"date":"2021-11-11T20:28:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=146054"},"modified":"2021-11-16T11:16:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:46:57","slug":"cop26-us-joins-india-led-global-solar-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cop26-us-joins-india-led-global-solar-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"COP26: US joins India-led global solar alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The United States of America(USA) has joined the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nternational-solar-alliance-isa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Solar Alliance (ISA) <\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as a member country.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of the US joining ISA?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US has become the 101st member to join the International Solar Alliance (ISA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">motivate many other countries to join. It will also ensure ISA\u2019s financial sustainability and enhance its global climate change role.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, the US had also joined the Steering Committee of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fourth-assembly-of-the-international-solar-alliance-closes-with-a-promise-to-achieve-1-trillion-global-in-solar-investments-by-2030\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GGI-OSOWOG<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0initiative comprising five members \u2013 USA, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and India \u2014 and endorsed the \u2018One Sun Declaration\u2019 along with 80 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About <\/b><b>International Solar Alliance<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISA is an intergovernmental treaty-based international organization. It was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jointly launched by India and France on the sidelines of COP 21 in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: To <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">catalyze global solar growth by helping to reduce the cost of financing and technology for solar.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/all-un-members-can-join-international-solar-alliancemea\/\">All UN members can join International Solar Alliance:MEA<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><b>Initiatives by ISA<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISA has so far facilitated the installation of 5 GW worth of solar projects in member countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has also launched the \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-editorial-one-sun-one-world-one-grid-a-journey-of-ironies-22nd-june-2020\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One Sun One World One Grid\u2019(OSOWOG) initiative.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the following articles:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>\u201c<\/b><b>COP26: US joins India-led global solar alliance<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> Indian Express on 10th November 2021.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>\u201c<\/b><b>The United States of America becomes the 101st member country of the International Solar Alliance<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB on 10th November 2021.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The United States of America(USA) has joined the International Solar Alliance (ISA) as a member country. What is the significance of the US joining ISA? The US has become the 101st member to join the International Solar Alliance (ISA). This will motivate many other countries to join. It will also ensure&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cop26-us-joins-india-led-global-solar-alliance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COP26: US joins India-led global solar alliance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[408,768,10429,10430,8796],"class_list":["post-146054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-climate-change","tag-energy","tag-one-sun-initiative","tag-osowog","tag-solar-energy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704739665},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}