The International Solar Alliance (ISA) on Wednesday signed a "Framework for Action" with the Rajasthan Government to formulate detailed plans and strategies for expanding the state's solar energy infrastructure for generation, transmission, and distribution.
A total of 125 member countries are participating in the assembly.
“Under the PM-KUSUM scheme, we are taking this transformation to the heartland of India,” Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Pralhad Joshi, who is also the ISA Assembly President, announced here at a curtain-raiser event last week for ISA’s eighth General Assembly, scheduled in New Delhi from October 27-30.
Believe it or not, West Bengal has the highest “disability adjusted life year” for brain stroke in India.
The meeting will bring together governments, development partners, financiers, and innovators to unlock solar investments, strengthen institutions, and accelerate energy access across the continent.
The general assembly, held virtually between 18-21 October, was presided over by Union Power and New and Renewable Energy Minister and President of the ISA Assembly R.K. Singh.
Countries such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and several others have been listed as progressive states that are in the initial stages of development of a favorable ecosystem.
The world recognizes that the consequences of climate change will be more dangerous if not checked with sincerity and speed, and collectively. It will be more devastating than Covid-19, which continues to paralyse the world community and destroy economies while we watch helplessly
Tripathy is its first director general and has prepared a detailed roadmap to collectively address key common challenges and scale up solar energy applications in line with their needs. His main target is to mobilise investments of more than $1000 billion by 2030 with a mission “every home no matter how far away will have a light at home”.
Subsequent to it, Tata Steel’s CEO and Managing Director (MD) T V Narendran has also stepped down.
