Contribute to stabilize colonization processes by studying and evaluating the impact of their intervention on the ecosystems and the development of technological alternatives for their utilization within the criteria of sustainability.

Within this network, in addition to the Intitutute of the Environment and Sustainable Development, all the public or private institutions of other sectors that carry out research in Amazon related topics.

Coordinate the Environmental Information System within the limits of the priorities, guidelines and policies defined by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development.

Support to the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development in the coordination of the management of information on the relations between the economic and social sectors and of the processes and resources of the Amazon.

To serve, in coordination with IDEAM, as a support agency for the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development for the creation of National Environmental Accounts in relation to Amazon region resources and ecosystems.

Promote the development and dissemination of knowledge, values and technologies on the management of natural resources of the ethnic groups of the Amazon region.

To research the biological and ecological reality of the Amazon, to propose alternative models of sustainable development based on the use of its natural resources.

To advance and promote the inventory of Amazon region fauna and flora, to establish the collections, data banks and research necessary for the development of national biodiversity policies, in collaboration with the Alexander Von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute.