Question: Which of the following statement is true about the International Solar Alliance?
(a) It is a solar based organization of countries amid of Cancer and Capricorn Line.
(b) Including India, organization consists of 121 countries.
(c) (a) and (b) both are correct.
(d) (a) and (b) both are wrong.
Answer: (c)
Related acts:
- On October 5, 2017, President of India Ramnath Kovind and Ethiopian counterpart Mulatu Teshome signed a bilateral agreement to promote business and communications in the capital, Addis Ababa.
- India announced a line-of-credit loan of USD 195 million for Ethiopia’s energy development.
- On this occasion, President Kovind released the book ‘India-Ethiopia 70 Years of Diplomatic Relations’.
- India thanked Ethiopia’s involvement in the International Solar Alliance.
- The International Solar Alliance is an organization of 121 countries based on solar energy.
- The initiative was launched by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India Africa Summit, and a meeting of member countries ahead of the2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in November 2015.
- Organization is providing a forum for the countries located in the highest solar radiation area amid of Cancer-Capricorn Line to work in the field of solar energy.
Reference:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-ethiopia-sign-agreements-on-trade-communication/1/1062312.html
http://airworldservice.org/english/archives/55788
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Solar_Alliance