- Establish, operate, and maintain a climate information service for polar regions and sea level rise
- Summarise and provide effective, comprehensive and accurate climate-related information to the public in a timely fashion
- Develop a framework to interpret research results to advise stakeholders and policymakers on deriving strategies and initiatives to protect climate and environment
- Create synergy among the large amount of climate-related information within the institute
- Delineate the climate-relevant research results for stakeholders, decision makers and the broad public in a national as well as international context in the form of conference contributions, articles, presentations, courses, etc.
- Collaborate with international partners in need of complementary scientific information
- Act as a forum for climate research in polar regions
- Organise the linking between the different target groups
- Provide regional climate scenarios
- Mediate interaction and communication between the scientific community, politics, economics, and society
- Bridge the gap between science and practical implementation
