Washington: A top US NGO on climate change and renewable energy today hailed India saying that by launching the International Solar Alliance the country is helping lead the way on global warming.

"You know clean energy is winning when the international community formally recognises that clean, renewable energy like solar is the way forward," Sierra Club Global Climate policy director John Coequy said a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi was joined by French President Francois Hollande and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Paris to announce the launch of the International Solar Alliance (ISA).