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• The US Special Presidential Envoy, in the COP26 Summit, made a landmark declaration confirming
  the membership of the USA to the International Solar Alliance.
• S becomes the 101st country to sign the framework agreement of the ISA to catalyze global energy transition through a solar-led approach. 

Background

Earlier at COP26, the United States also joined the Steering Committee of the GGI-OSOWOG comprising of 5 members – USA, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and India — and endorsed the One Sun Declaration along with 80 countries. 

About The International Solar Alliance

• The ISA is an intergovernmental treaty-based organization with a global mandate to catalyze solar growth by helping to reduce the cost of financing and technology.
• ISA is the nodal agency for implementing One Sun One World One Grid (OSOWOG), which seeks to transfer solar power generated in one region to feed the electricity demands of others.
• OSOWOG envisions building and scaling inter-regional energy grids to share solar energy across the globe, leveraging the differences of time zones, seasons, resources, and prices between countries and regions.
• It will also help decarbonize energy production, which is today the largest source of global greenhouse gas emissions.