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The International Solar Alliance (ISA) will convene the Sixth Regional Committee Meeting (RCM) for the Europe and Others Region from 10–12 June 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting will bring together country representatives, technical universities, think tanks, institutional partners and private sector leaders to drive a unified and strategic agenda for global solar deployment.
With the theme ‘Elevating the Region’s Role in the Global Solar Transition’, this year’s RCM is poised to deliver actionable strategies across key areas of innovation, policy, finance and capacity building.
Ashish Khanna, Director General, ISA said, “The Sixth Regional Committee Meeting of the International Solar Alliance for Europe and the Others Region will be a pivotal platform to advance collaborative action on solar energy. As part of an evolving vision, ISA is ready to launch a USD 200 mn catalytic finance facility for Africa, seeking to combine 10 existing national centres of excellence in Member Countries with a Global Capability Centre providing cutting edge AI and digital solutions to all our Member Countries, initiating technology policy and roadmaps solutions and selectively pursuing regional and country platforms for transformational change. This Meeting will reaffirm our commitment to building a cleaner, more resilient energy future through multilateral cooperation and public-private synergy.”
The Sixth RCM will address the following ISA priorities oriented to scale global solar adoption –
• The Catalytic Finance Hub will provide catalytic and blended finance for risk mitigation to promote private investment in Africa (USD 74 million of a USD 200 million fund has been mobilised), leading to subsequent facilities in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Global Capability Centre and Digitisation pursuing the vision of Silicon Valley for solar in India using a hub-and-spoke model connecting existing national centres of excellence operating as STAR-C, mainstreaming innovation through Solar X Startup Challenge, replicating the success of Solar Energy Corporation of India in Africa and providing technical assistance.
• Regional and country-level engagement through a selective platform for aggregation and scaling, such as the SIDS platform, focusing on E-tendering and E-procurement.
• Technology Roadmap and Policy to manage the uptake of solar in the ISA Member Countries, especially on solar supply chain diversification issues and points of view on new and emerging technologies.
With its advocacy for solar-powered solutions, ISA aims to transform lives, bring clean, reliable and affordable energy to communities worldwide, fuel sustainable growth, and improve quality of life. On 6 December 2017, 15 countries signed and ratified the ISA Framework Agreement, making ISA the first international intergovernmental organisation to be headquartered in India.
ISA is partnering with multilateral development banks (MDBs), development financial institutions (DFIs), private and public sector organisations, civil society and other international institutions to deploy cost-effective and transformational solutions through solar energy, especially in the least Developed Countries (LDCs) and the Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
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