At the ministerial meeting, PM Modi highlighted that India's carbon emissions account for only 4 per cent of the global total despite being home to 17 per cent of the world's population. He also said that India has exceeded all of its Paris Agreement commitments towards climate change.
“It has long been coming, and we are happy to join the International Solar Alliance, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the lead in making,” said Kerry.
“Four years ago in Paris, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande launched the International Solar Alliance (ISA), it was a new beginning. But, now I can say that the four-year-old child is running fast, but it must run faster because the need of the hour is that we must tap solar in a big way,”Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said.
“It was also discussed how it has economically benefitted the organisation besides achieving the distinction of being the first metro in the world to go green,” the DMRC said in a statement.
"The world needs a roadmap for finance and technology to achieve the goals set out in the Convention and its Paris Agreement in everyone's collective interest," External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said at a high-level meeting on climate change here on Wednesday.
International Solar Alliance is open to all 121 prospective member countries falling between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
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