To provide estimates of urban and rural populations and land areas in the low elevation coastal zone.

To provide geographical portraits of vulnerability designed to incorporate both exposure to climate change and national capacities to adapt.

To provide a database with observed responses to climate change for multidisciplinary studies.

To provide an assessment of potential climate change impacts on world crop production.

To provide annual estimates of anthropogenic global and regional Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) emissions in support of climate, atmospheric or other related research.

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

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

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 new emissions scenarios for the IPCC Assessment Reports.

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

To make the acquisition, comparison and analysis of sustainability indicators easier by compiling them in a single database, incorporating multiple country codes, and condensing the indicator descriptions into short methodological summaries in an accompanying data dictionary.

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

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

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global drought hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global flood hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global flood hazard.

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

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

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