To provide a means of assessing global drought mortality risks and distribution.

To create a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability and to provide a mechanism for making environmental management more quantitative, empirically grounded and systematic.

To provide a gridded data on country-level population and downscaled projections based on the SRES B2 marker scenario.

To provide gridded GDP data on country-level downscaled projections based on the SRES B2 marker scenario.

To provide insights into the processes that can negatively influence the sustainable development of countries, with particular reference to vulnerability to natural hazards.

To provide data on country-level population and downscaled projections based on the SRES B2 marker scenario.

To provide data on country-level GDP per capita and downscaled projections based on the SRES A1, A2, B1, B2 marker scenarios.

To provide data on country-level population and downscaled projections based on the SRES A1, B1, and A2 marker scenarios.

To provide tabular data on environmental conditions (elevations, climate, coastal) in which people reside.

To provide a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability covering a number of sustainability dimensions.

To provide information on the status of country participation in international environmental agreements.

To provide search and retrieval of texts of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)

To provide a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability based on lessons learned from the year 2000 pilot effort.

To provide gridded emissions data that can be used in interdisciplinary studies of the environment.

To provide fluor-gases emissions data that can be used in interdisciplinary studies of the environment.

To provide the projections of anthropogenic emissions of gases that have the potential to affect climate change.

To provide new emissions scenarios for the IPCC Assessment Reports.

To test the feasibility of creating a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability.

To provide an assessment of potential climate change impacts on world crop production, including quantitative estimates of yield changes of major food.

To provide a baseline dataset for the evaluation of climate change impact.