The purpose of the Environment Research Funders' Forum is to make the best possible use of public funding for environmental research, monitoring (observation) and survey, and associated policy, regulation and training. It seeks to achieve this by bringing together the UK's major public sector sponsors of environmental science to enable them to make more effective use of funding in cooperation than they can separately.
In pursuit of the most efficient use of public funds for the understanding, protection and enhancement of the natural environment ERFF encompasses not only the environmental sciences directly concerned with understanding the environment itself, but includes research in other disciplines such as the social sciences and engineering, which can provide enlightenment on environmental issues or solutions to environmental problems.