US Leaves India-Led International Solar Alliance With Other 65 Organisations

United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order to withdraw from the International Solar Alliance (ISA), along with 65 other international organizations, including 31 United Nations Organizations. Reportedly, Trump had directed the Secretary of State to conduct a review of all international intergovernmental organisations that the US was a member of or funded.

US President Donald Trump approves the bill mandating tariffs upto 500% on countries buying Russian oil and to withdraw the US from the Indian-led International Solar Alliance (ISA), along with dozens of other international organisations.

This was to determine which groupings were ‘contrary to the interests of the United States’ in line with Trump’s political agenda of “America first”, which often includes targeting foreign countries over alleged unfairness in how the US is treated.

Some of the most prominent organisations in the list are the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, along with India-headquartered ISA.

ISA was predicated on the idea that the over 120 countries located in the tropics, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, could harness solar energy to meet their electricity needs. It was a collaborative initiative between India and France aimed at uniting efforts to combat climate change by implementing solar energy solutions. It is headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana.

Trump’s criticism of solar energy is linked to his overall opposition to renewable energy, and he has generally promoted the use of thermal power by linking it to American jobs. In 2025, he called climate change “The greatest con job”, even as scientists now overwhelmingly agree to the reality of climate change, greenhouse gas emission and how human activities have accelerated these phenomena.