Question: With which of the following, ISA Framework Agreement is related to?
a) Solar Energy
b) Nuclear Energy
c) Hydro-power
d) None of these
Answer: (a)
Related Facts:-
- On 04 August 2021; Germany signed upon the International Solar Alliance Framework Agreement.
- Now the Germany became the 5th country to sign upon ISA frame work agreement
- Germany came forward to take this step to join ISA frame work Agreement after amendments to it entered into force on 8th January 2021.
- New amendments provided the way for opening its Membership to all Member States of the United Nations.
- On 04 August 2021; Ambassador of Germany to India Walter J. Lindner deposited signed copies of International Solar Alliance Framework Agreement with Ministry of External Affairs, the depositary of Agreement.
- ISA membership was previously limited to 121 countries that were partly or wholly located within the tropics.
- In the beginning it did not allow major solar energy economies such as Germany to join the coalition that was increasingly seen as a foreign policy tool.
- The initiative was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India Africa Summit in November 2015 just before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
- In November 2016, the Framework Agreement for the International Solar Alliance was opened for signature in Marrakech, Morocco.