• Support the integration of environment protection requirements into the EU development and external relations policies;• Promote the EU's environmental and energy policies abroad in the common interest of the EU and the partner countries;• Mainly focused on the global, regional and cross-border level;• Support to multilateral frameworks (multilateral agreements on environment or international processes – e.g. UN Forum on forests) and cooperation with international agencies);• Support capacity-building, political dialogues, coordination and consultation processes, scientific research, innovations/tools to better integrate environment objectives in policies;• Stimulation of regional and multi-regional cooperation; • May address issues that are too often not priorities under the geographical instruments, for example, for reasons of market failure or the constraints of poor country governments which trade off the long-term benefits of sustainability against short term needs.