With reference to the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA), which of the following

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With reference to the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA), which of the following statements is/are correct?GACSA is an outcome of the Climate Summit held in Paris in 2015.Membership of GACSA does not create any binding obligations.India was instrumental in the creation of GACSA.Select the correct answer using the code given below:

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The term Climate-Smart Agriculture was first coined by FAO in 2010 as a means to attract climate finance to its agricultural programmes in Africa. GACSA is an inclusive, voluntary and action-oriented multi-stakeholder platform on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA). GACSA was launched in September 2014 in the margins of the UN Climate Summit. The Alliance held its inaugural Annual Forum in December 2014, during which the 2015 Inception Year Work Plan was endorsed.The concept of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) was originally developed by FAO and officially presented at the Hague Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change in 2010, through the paper Climate-Smart Agriculture: Policies, Practices and Financing for Food Security, Adaptation and Mitigation. They have been established based on bottom-up, inclusive, independent and voluntary processes, with specific objectives, functioning and institutional setting.The emergence of CSA alliances and platforms worldwide is a positive and strong signal to the international community on the willingness of all stakeholders, at various levels of action, to tackle the climate challenges in the agricultural sectors, based on joint efforts and context-specific approaches.The GACSA alliance is made up of a diverse set of members that includes governments, NGOs, intergovernmental organizations (including UN and the African Union Commission), research/extension/education organizations, farmer organizations, financing institutions and the private sector. Key donor organisations engaging with GACSA include the governments of Canada, France, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.Though some of the Indian NGOs are its members, there is not enough evidence of India being instrumental in the creation of GACSA.