Environment Liaison Center International (ELCI) is a Non Governmental membership Organization that emerged and was established from the first Earth Summit in Stockholm in 1972. This initiative was aimed at monitoring the activities of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and help Non Governmental Organizations and UNEP work more effectively.

ELCI has a membership network of over 800 NGO/CBO member organizations in over 100 countries all working towards a more sustainable world. ELCI has consultative status with the
Commission for Sustainable Development (UN-CSD), United Nations Environment Programme,
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Accredited to among others, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Desertification (UNCCD), Conference of Parties to
the Commission on Biodiversity (CBD), the Montreal Protocol for the protection of the ozone layer, the UN Commission on
Human Settlements (UNCHS) Habitat II, and UNESCO.

Mission

Making information a useful tool to measurably improve the environment

Vision

Enlightened societies in ecological abundance

Objectives

To build the capacity of NGO's and CBO's by facilitating both their access to relevant information and Information exchange

To promote sustainable environmental programmes and projects

To involve NGO's and CBO's in issue based workshops and seminars

To facilitate and coordinate and NGO's and CBO's to take an advocacy role in international environmental conferences

Activities

ELCI activities are concentrated in five thematic areas: Forests, water, energy, agriculture, and environmental governance.
For each thematic area, a variety of approaches and projects are implemented. These are based at the local, national and
regional levels, with cross-cutting initiatives concentrating at international fora.

ELCI focuses on the local-global linkages, especially with those initiatives that bring policy or ideas to the grassroot levels
or 'on the ground' case studies or lessons learned to the decision making people.

The main aspects of this work are communication, information generation and dissemination aimed at environmental
conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

In addition, ELCI focuses on the link between Civil Society and UNEP, encouraging a stronger advisory role od NGOs in
UNEP decision making.

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