Narendra Modi,Emmanuel  Macron selected for UN's highest environmental award      (Sep 27 ,2018)

Prime minister narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron are selected for this year's champions of the Earth' award (UN's highest environmental honour). They are selected in the policy leadership category for their work in championing the International Solar Alliance(ISA) and promoting new areas of levels of cooperation on environmental action. India and France had together launched the ISA on side lines  of the UN climate conference (COP21) in Paris in 2015.

India's Cochin International Airport is also selected for the award as World's first fully solar - powered airport because of the entrepreneurial Vision category for its leadership in the use of sustainable energy . The UNEP while announcing the award noted Macron's  work on the global pact for the environment and modi's "unprecedented pledge: to eliminate all single - use plastic in India by 2022.Other winner of the 2018 'Champions of Earth ' awards include Joan Carling )lifetime achievement award) for her work as one of the world's most prominent defenders of environment and indigenous rights.

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 ISA ( International Solar Alliance ) - It is an intergovernmental body of solar rich nations whose objective to sudden  actions for increasing solar power footprints in 121 potential member countries across the globe and it head quartered in Gurugram near New Delhi in India.

UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme