The central goal of the project is to provide the scientific needed to inform policies designed to reduce contributions to atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4).

The main objectives of CARBODIN are:

- To provide scientific data and analysis to determine the fate of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by combustion of fossil fuels in 2 areas.

- To understand the rates and mechanisms controlling carbon uptake and release from soil and vegetation in other 3 areas from Romania.

- The project will develop knowledge of the sources and processes that release other important gases, including carbon monoxide (CO) to the atmosphere.

- The project will improve our understanding on magnitude location, temporal behavior and causes of the carbon source/sink strenghts of three terrestrial ecosystems which can be used to improve capacity of our country to accomplish the Kyoto protocol (1997) and Montreal protocol (2005).

- To develop a strong infrastructure that will be able to provide a high level performance for the measurements.

- To increase scientific cooperation among the project participants and to implement a network that will be able to offer integrate services at the local/regional scale connecting with the carbon budget.One single institute could not carry out a project of such complexity as CARBODIN for evident logistical reasons, and also for technological reasons. In fact, the different participants in the project have complementary technical and scientific expertise. For instance, NIRDIMT Cluj are experienced with stable isotope measurements, while NIRD-CIT Ramnicu Valcea are experienced with gas traces measurements.

- To increase cooperation with other scientific communities involved in carbon cycle studies.