build geographic and gender-balanced partnerships and capacity for environmental assessments.

build geographic and gender-balanced partnerships and capacity for environmental assessments.

provide access to the best scientific knowledge for international environmental governance and the mainstreaming of environmental concerns into social and economic sectors, and in support of the internationally agreed development goals;

facilitate the interaction between science and policy through multi-scaled and multidimensional integrated assessment processes and products of high legitimacy, credibility and utility; and

facilitate the interaction between science and policy through multi-scaled and multidimensional integrated assessment processes and products of high legitimacy, credibility and utility; and