Sunshine countries

The sunshine countries comprise all major countries which come either completely or partly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi launched the initiative to form a group of 107 sunshine countries at the India Africa Summit and held a meeting among them before the conclave of 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris on 30 November 2015. He has coined a term for them as "suryaputra," or "sons of the sun". The alliance is also called International Agency for Solar Policy and Application (IASPA). The headquarters will be set up in India with an investment of an initial $30M. In first phase, $400M will be raised from membership fees along with international agencies. India already has ambitious targets of achieving renewable energy that it will generate more than 175GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022 and decrease emissions by 33 to 35 percent by 2030. India will endorse clean energy, sustainable environment, public transport and climate adaptive agriculture through this initiative.