Shape multilateral environmental agreements
ICLEI actively implements and participates in international negotiations under these agreements to ensure the needs, interests and priorities of local and regional governments are represented and taken up in official decisions.
ICLEI is the only subnational government network accredited as an observer of all three cornerstone international agreements coming out of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro: the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).