Here are  Back2Basics collections from today’s news items

B2B #1: From news – ISA plans global solar bank to finance $150 billion of power projects

International Solar Alliance

1. The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is an alliance of more than 121 countries, most of them being sunshine countries, which lie either completely or partly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
2. The primary objective of the alliance is to work for efficient exploitation of solar energy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels
3. The alliance is a treaty-based inter-governmental organization
4. The alliance is also called International Agency for Solar Policy and Application (IASPA)
5. The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is to be headquartered in India
6. The initiative was launched by PM Narendra Modi at the India Africa Summit and a meeting of member countries ahead of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in November 2015

Here’s a Factoid to brush up your concepts

Name : World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)

Objective : To encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world

Members : 186 of the UN member states as well as the Cook Islands, Holy See and Niue are members of WIPO

Headquarters : Geneva, Switzerland

Year Founded : 1967