International Solar Alliance (ISA) is launched through adoption of the Paris Declaration on the sidelines of CoP21. The objective of the alliance is to facilitate and accelerate the large-scale deployment of solar energy in member countries in order to meet soaring energy demand and help fight climate change.

Number of countries that have in-principle agreed to join the alliance. Most of them being sunshine countries, which come either completely or partly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. The alliance concept was mooted by Narendra Modi - Prime Minister of India during the CoP21 and supported by French President François Hollande.

Number of countries that have signed the framework agreement that defines the alliances statutes. Of these, 40 have ratified the framework agreement.

Capacity of solar energy that the alliance aims to install by 2030.

The Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi, and the President of France Mr François Hollande, today jointly laid the foundation stone of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Headquarters and inaugurated the interim Secretariat of the ISA in National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), Gwalpahari, Gurgaon.

Joint declaration signed between World Bank and ISA that will help in mobilizing the $1,000 billion funding requirement by 2030.

ISA and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) signed Joint partnership Declaration. The two will work as financial partners for promotion of Solar Energy.

ISA becomes a legal treaty-based international intergovernmental organisation having achieved the minimum 15 ratifications in accordance with Article XIII (1) of its framework agreement.