Comment on International Solar Alliance
Richard Benyon comments on new international initiative launched at Paris climate talks
By George Smeeton
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Commenting on the launch today of the International Solar Alliance at COP21 in Le Bourget, Paris by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President François Hollande, Richard Benyon, MP for Newbury and former UK Minister for the Natural Environment and Fisheries, said:
“This initiative is very welcome, indicating that developing countries are seeing the rich potential of renewable energy and grasping that potential for themselves.
“It promises to accelerate the solar surge that we’re already seeing, bringing affordable electricity and hence better health and education to many of the world’s poorest people, without contributing to climate change.
“President Modi is to be commended for his initiative and for basing it on the principle of unlocking innovation, which in the end is the engine of all economic growth.”