The Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development was set up to promote social sustainability and conduct interdisciplinary research in areas related to sustainable development and climate change, including mitigation and adaptation. It focuses on the use of telemetry, IT tools, intelligent systems and modelling for monitoring, research, decision support and strategic planning and aims to transfer knowledge and raise awareness of initiatives on sustainable development and climate change with enterprise and organisations through, for example, cleaner technologies. The main aim of the Institute is to create initiatives and conduct research that enhances Malta's quality of life.