The Center for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development of Shiraz University aims to facilitate cooperation and collaboration amongst experts and scientists in various departments to educate, perform research and provide consultation on various aspects of the environment.

Human beings have acquired extraordinary ability to change the natural environment through the development of modern technology, especially within the last few decades of the twentieth century. These abilities which were used to exploit natural resources caused the exhaustion of such resources, especially non-renewable energy and resulted in major point and non-point sources of pollution. On a global scale, the overuse of natural resources resulted in the green house effect, global warming, climate change, acid rain, deforestation, and desertification. These environmental problems have placed the Earth in a critical and dangerous situation .