Acknowledging the potential threat caused by climate change worldwide, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj highlighted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'One Sun, One Grid' vision as a potential solution to the challenge posed by the global woe. Swaraj, while delivering a statement at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), asserted that India has risen to meet the challenge of climate change, a testament of which was the honour conferred upon Prime Minister Modi by the United Nations on September 26.

"Prime Minister Modi in partnership with France launched the International Solar Alliance (ISA). The United Nations has recognised their contributions and conferred on Prime Minister Modi and (French) President Macron the honour of UN Champions of the Earth. I am happy to inform you that 68 nations are now members of ISA. In March this year, India and France chaired the Founding Conference of ISA in which 120 countries participated. Our Prime Minister has described his vision of sustainable and available energy in a typically apt phrase: One Sun, One Grid. This breakthrough concept can become the solution we seek to the problems," she noted.