Advance the forefront of climate change research to provide the nation with the scientific knowledge for the betterment of environment and society to ensure sustainable development through achieving climate change adaptive goals.

Vision of this centre is to promote climate science research and to strengthen understanding of climate change and capacity to manage and adapt to it. To disseminate knowledge of regional climate among the scientists, young researchers, rural public and government.

Anna University’s world-leading scientific expertise and experience, its unmatched facilities for multi-disciplinary research, its leadership-class computational systems, and its decades-long history of leading-edge scientific research and analysis of complex systems, provide a unique foundation for Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation Research to lead future advances in climate change research.

• Impart scientific foundations and tools used by the nation to plan for, adapt to, and mitigate climate change.

• Support scientific considerations of Biodiversity conservation, Energy, Climate modelling Policy options and Community based climate    adaptive mechanisms.

• Inform the public -discussion about climate change.

• Disseminate the issue of climate change awareness to the public.