The International Solar Alliance is a treaty-based organization of over 112 member countries, primarily located between the Tropics, aimed at promoting solar energy adoption to reduce fossil fuel dependence. Launched by Indian PM Narendra Modi in 2015 and headquartered in Haryana, India, the ISA opened for signatures in Marrakesh in November 2016 with 102 initial signatories.
Twenty years after Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, global greenhouse gas emissions continue rising despite available solutions. Bruce McCabe argues that politicians enable fossil fuel industries because voters, despite claiming to support climate action, consistently choose not to vote for candidates proposing emissions reductions when such policies involve personal costs or lifestyle changes.
Earth's climate absorbs heat equivalent to 4 Hiroshima bombs per second, primarily from greenhouse gases released by fossil fuel burning. Most warming goes into the oceans, with the planet accumulating 250 trillion Joules of heat per second over recent decades, causing observable changes like melting ice, rising sea levels, and shifting ecosystems.